Friday, April 12, 2024

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. MENACING BY STALKING

Steve Steinberg, Senior Domestic Violence Prosecutor
Emma Wheeler, Stalking Advocate
Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein’s Office

How the city of Columbus addresses menacing by stalking, including how they evaluate and build stalking cases.

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. BREAK

10:15 – 11:15 a.m. STRANGULATION

Mary Lynn Caswell, Domestic Violence Director
Julienne Long, Domestic Violence Advocacy Coordinator
Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein’s Office

This presentation will include a discussion on the STOP Program.

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. BREAK

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. IMPLICATIONS OF RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA

DRE Officer, Columbus Police Department

The passage of issue 2 has caused lots of new issues for police and prosecutors. This presentation will cover prosecuting marijuana OVI’s and try to answer the most asked questions since the legalization of recreational marijuana.

12:30 – 1:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. GETTING STATEMENTS INTO EVIDENCE

David Pelletier, Appellate Attorney, Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein’s Office

Rules of Evidence/Trial Practice

2:00 – 2:15 p.m. BREAK

2:15 – 3:15 p.m. APPLICATION OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRINCIPLES AND MAKING CHARGING AND PLEA NEGOTIATION DECISIONS

Melanie Tobias-Hunter, Deputy Chief of Staff-Prosecution
Jennifer Grant, Lead Prosecutor-Procedural Justice Initiative
Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein’s Office

Presentation will discuss restorative justice principles and examine how restorative justice principles can be used in a case, specifically the 2023 vandalism case of the Ohio State Hillel Wexner Jewish Student Center in Columbus.

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. BREAK

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM: TOBACCO AND HOME RULE

Rich Coglianese, Solicitor General, Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein’s Office

This presentation will cover civil and criminal regulations of tobacco retailers and how the state’s tobacco pre-emption impacts municipalities even if your city does not have its own tobacco regulations. We will also examine the impact of home rule on the state’s new law.