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...fit entity, governmental unit, or other legal entity. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, this chapter applies to a cause of action asserted in a civil action against a person based on any of the following: (1) The person's communication in a legislative, executive, judicial, administrative, or other governmental proceeding; (2) The person's communication on an issue under consideration or r...

...civil action or claim. The court may extend the sixty-day period to file the motion for expedited relief for good cause shown.

...ll other proceedings in the action between the moving party and responding party, including discovery and any other pending hearing or motion. (2) Upon request by the moving party, the court may stay a hearing or motion involving another party in the action, or discovery by another party, if the hearing or ruling on the motion would adjudicate, or the discovery would relate to, an issue material to the motion for e...

...any response to the motion, and any evidence that could be considered in ruling on a motion for summary judgment under Rule 56 of the Rules of Civil Procedure. (C) In ruling on the motion for expedited relief, the court shall dismiss with prejudice a cause of action, or part of a cause of action, if all of the following apply: (1) The moving party establishes that the cause of action is based on a communication o...

...sts, and other reasonable litigation expenses to the moving party. The court shall not fail to award, or reduce an award of, attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses under this division on the grounds that the representation of the moving party was undertaken on a pro bono or contingent basis. (B) If the court denies a motion for expedited relief under section 2747.04 of the Revised Co...

...to its subject matter among states that enact a substantially similar law.

...ss, certificates of deposit, letters of credit, bills of credit or debit cards, financial transaction authorization mechanisms, marketable securities, or any computer system representations of any of them. (b) As used in division (A)(10) of this section, "trade secret" has the same meaning as in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code, and "telecommunications service" and "information service" have the same meanings a...

...7.03, 2967.13, 2967.191, 2967.193, 2967.26, 2967.28, 2971.03, 3719.99, 5120.021, 5120.53, 5120.66, and 5120.80 and to former section 2967.19 and the enactment of sections 2901.011, 2929.144, 2967.271, and 5120.038 of the Revised Code by S.B. 201 of the 132nd general assembly constitute the Reagan Tokes Law.

...der and murder are felonies. (D) Regardless of the penalty that may be imposed, any offense specifically classified as a felony is a felony, and any offense specifically classified as a misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. (E) Any offense not specifically classified is a felony if imprisonment for more than one year may be imposed as a penalty. (F) Any offense not specifically classified is a misdemeanor if imprisonm...

... a criminal offense against the state unless it is defined as an offense in the Revised Code. (B) An offense is defined when one or more sections of the Revised Code state a positive prohibition or enjoin a specific duty, and provide a penalty for violation of such prohibition or failure to meet such duty. (C) This section does not affect any power of the general assembly under Section 8 of Article II, Ohio Constit...

...y to a substantially equivalent offense under an existing or former law of this state, another state, or the United States or under an existing or former municipal ordinance. (D) Any provision of the Revised Code that refers to a section, or to a division of a section, of the Revised Code that defines or specifies a criminal offense shall be construed to also refer to an existing or former law of this state, another...

...nt until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and the burden of proof for all elements of the offense is upon the prosecution. The burden of going forward with the evidence of an affirmative defense, and the burden of proof, by a preponderance of the evidence, for an affirmative defense other than self-defense, defense of another, or defense of the accused's residence presented as described in division (B)(1) of ...

...drome as evidence to establish the requisite belief of an imminent danger of death or great bodily harm that is necessary, as an element of the affirmative defense, to justify the person's use of the force in question. The introduction of any expert testimony under this division shall be in accordance with the Ohio Rules of Evidence.

...29.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Post-release control" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Head of the arresting law enforcement agency" means whichever of the following is applicable regarding the arrest in question: (a) If the arrest was made by a sheriff or a deputy sheriff, the sheriff who made the arrest or who employs the deputy sheriff who made the arrest; (b) If the ar...

... sentenced as a repeat violent offender under division (B)(2) of section 2929.14 and section 2941.149 of the Revised Code ; (2) Whether the person is a violent career criminal as defined in section 2923.132 of the Revised Code, whether the person has committed unlawful use of a weapon by a violent career criminal in violation of section 2923.132 of the Revised Code or should be sentenced for that offense under that...

...(A) As used in this section, "residence" has the same meaning as in section 2901.05 of the Revised Code. (B) For purposes of any section of the Revised Code that sets forth a criminal offense, a person has no duty to retreat before using force in self-defense, defense of another, or defense of that person's residence if that person is in a place in which the person lawfully has a right to be. (C) A trier of fact ...

...her similar appliance or device. (5) "Unborn child" means a member of the species homo sapiens who is carried in the womb of a woman who is a charged or convicted criminal offender, during a period that begins with fertilization and continues until live birth occurs. (6) "Emergency circumstance" means a sudden, urgent, unexpected incident or occurrence that requires an immediate reaction and restraint of the char...

... of the Ohio river extending to the opposite shore line, between the extended boundary lines of any adjacent counties or adjacent state. Each of those courts of common pleas has concurrent jurisdiction on the Ohio river with any adjacent court of common pleas that borders on that river and with any court of Kentucky or of West Virginia that borders on the Ohio river and that has jurisdiction on the Ohio river under t...

... territory of which the offense or any element of the offense was committed. (B) When the offense or any element of the offense was committed in an aircraft, motor vehicle, train, watercraft, or other vehicle, in transit, and it cannot reasonably be determined in which jurisdiction the offense was committed, the offender may be tried in any jurisdiction through which the aircraft, motor vehicle, train, watercraft, o...

...909.02, 2909.22, 2909.23, 2909.24, 2909.26, 2909.27, 2909.28, 2909.29, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, or 2917.02 of the Revised Code, a violation of section 2903.11 or 2903.12 of the Revised Code if the victim is a peace officer, a violation of section 2903.13 of the Revised Code that is a felony, or a violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; (b) A conspiracy to commit, attempt to commit, or c...

...(A) Every act enacted on or after the effective date of this section that creates a new criminal offense shall specify the degree of mental culpability required for commission of the offense. A criminal offense for which no degree of mental culpability is specified that is enacted in an act in violation of this division is void. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to the amendment of a criminal offense ...

...erforming; (2) The person has the requisite degree of culpability for each element as to which a culpable mental state is specified by the language defining the offense. (B) When the language defining an offense does not specify any degree of culpability, and plainly indicates a purpose to impose strict criminal liability for the conduct described in the section, then culpability is not required for a person to be ...

...the person disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the person's conduct is likely to cause a certain result or is likely to be of a certain nature. A person is reckless with respect to circumstances when, with heedless indifference to the consequences, the person disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that such circumstances are likely to exist. (D) A person acts negligently when, because of a ...

...se conduct the organization is accountable or the circumstances under which it is accountable, those provisions shall apply. (2) A purpose to impose organizational liability plainly appears in the section defining the offense, and the offense is committed by an officer, agent, or employee of the organization acting in its behalf and within the scope of the officer's, agent's, or employee's office or employment...

...another to engage in such conduct, or tolerates such conduct when it is of a type for which he has direct responsibility; (2) He has primary responsibility to discharge a duty imposed on the organization by law, and such duty is not discharged. (B) When a person is convicted of an offense by reason of this section, he is subject to the same penalty as if he had acted in his own behalf.