Summit Legal Publishing Unveils Its Newest Product

Online, March 20, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Summit Legal Publishing is pleased to announce the release of "Ohio Felony Sentencing, 2012 Update". Ohio Felony Sentencing, 2012 Update, contains the text of Amended Substitute House Bill 86, as signed by the Governor, along with relevant analysis by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission. Amended Substitute House Bill H.B. 86, effective September 30, 2011, sets forth the most significant changes to Ohio's criminal and prison law in over a decade. Noteworthy amendments were made to theft threshold, drug penalty, probation, reentry plan, juvenile delinquency, criminal incarceration, treatment and rehabilitation provisions, penalty provisions and numerous other criminal statutes.

Ohio Felony Sentencing, 2012 Update contains Am.Sub. H.B. 86, in its entirety, showing deleted and added statutory language in conjunction with analysis by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission in order to provide Ohio's criminal law practitioners with a one of a kind quick reference guide to the major statutory changes made by this extensive revision of Ohio criminal law. Publisher-created statute name lines are included to give the reader context and make analysis easier. The comprehensive index provided in Ohio Felony Sentencing, 2012 Update enables users to find relevant text quickly and easily. This publications allows attorneys, judges, and anyone else involved in the Ohio criminal justice system to not only find the changes to the law, but to understand the legislative intent behind these changes.

Summit Legal Publishing presents Ohio Felony Sentencing, 2012 Update as a high quality, perfect bound, soft-cover book with larger, more readable type and a single-column format. The headers in the book point the reader to the current Ohio Revised Code chapter being amended and analyzed, making navigation of the book simple and straight-forward. PDF and ebook editions of the book feature a linked table of contents and internal links between related Editor's Notes and Legislative Service Commission Analysis.