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Law's Sharona Hoffman and Michael Benza weigh in on a mandatory vaccine case as a sentencing in a criminal law proceeding

MEDIA | August 16, 2021
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New York Times: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, and Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, weighed in on the cases of two Ohio judges who made vaccinations mandatory as a condition at sentencing in a criminal law proceeding. They noted that while judges have leeway in setting such rules, it’s a murky area.