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Sponsor seeks to remove "stealth, deceit and force" requirement from Ohio burglary statute
Summary
Representative Klick proposed House Bill 252 to change the statutory definition of burglary by removing the words "stealth, deceit, and force," citing a recent Ohio Supreme Court case that vacated a burglary conviction where a defendant's conduct (a smile) was debated as stealth or deceit.
Representative Klick told the House Judiciary Committee that House Bill 252 would remove the words “stealth, deceit and force” from the Ohio Revised Code definition of burglary and bring Ohio in line with many other states and the Model Penal Code by criminalizing entering a building with intent to commit a crime without requiring those qualifiers.
Klick described a case in which a…
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