In January, Marianna helped moot Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) staff attorney Carrie Wood for Ms. Wood’s oral argument before the Ohio Supreme Court in State v. Noling.

In her Legally Speaking Ohio blog, Marianna posted in January on topics such as:  the confidentiality of medical records, the interpretation of Ohio’s Health Care Provider Apology Statute, evaluating the merits of plaintiff’s claims when denying class certification, the admissibility of a student’s out of court statements to teachers in an abuse case, the admissibility of a non-testifying co-defendant’s statements through an investigating police officer in a murder case, the definition of “teacher” for purposes of participation in the State Teachers’ Retirement System, the appropriate sanction for a state discovery violation in a criminal case, and the appropriate  standard for new DNA testing by a convicted murderer claiming innocence.  Marianna had another busy month of blogging in February, when she posted on the following: are mortgage servicers covered under the Consumer Sales Practices Act, is the firing of a public school teacher a first amendment violation or Inappropriate injection of Christian beliefs into science class, filing suit under a pseudonym in a sex abuse case, two class action certification cases, sovereign immunity and employer intentional torts, the confidentiality of medical records, interpretation of Ohio’s health care provider apology statute.

Also in February, Marianna published An outstanding arrest warrant doesn’t ‘cleanse’ an earlier bad detention, in her monthly Legally Speaking column in The American Israelite.  She additionally instituted the first in a series of practicums at UC Law called Practically Speaking, which is viewing a current Ohio Supreme Court case and then discussing it for style and substance; the February Practicuum featured OIP staff attorney Carrie Wood, who discussed State v. Noling (see above), a case in which Ms. Wood argued before the Ohio Supreme Court on the right to additional DNA testing by a prisoner on death row.