David Hejmanowski: Shedding the shackles
“Shackling undermines the presumption of innocence and denigrates the fact-finding process.”— American Bar Association“Shackling is contrary to the goals of juvenile justice.”— National Council...
Mariann Main: A model for our public schools to emulate
News of another terrorist attack last week has plunged the United States into fear mode. Travel to Europe currently is not recommended. Airports are...
David Hejmanowski: Clarifying last week’s column
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time.”— Martin Luther King Jr.“No person shall knowingly engage in conduct...
David Hejmanowski: Crashing the rally party
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of...
David Hejmanowski: When Congress picked the president
“If no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for...
Mariann Main: Can we start 2016 over again?
At certain times in each of our lives, it would be wise to have a “do-over.” Unfortunately second chances in life are rarely granted...
David Hejmanowski: Who’s right in Apple vs. FBI?
“This tension should be resolved by the American people deciding how we want to govern ourselves in a world we have never seen before.”—...
David Hejmanowski: A massive jolt to the legal world
“It turns out it was what I loved. Don’t do it if you don’t love it, it’s not the most exciting profession unless you...
Mike DeWine: Heroin death toll is mounting
Unintentional drug overdoses claimed the lives of 2,482 Ohioans in 2014. That’s nearly four deaths every day, and an alarming jump – more than...
David Hejmanowski: A not-so-subtle message
“If there were no revising authority to control these jarring and discordant judgments and harmonize them into uniformity, the laws, the treaties, and the...