Posted on 06/11/2020 2:28:33 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Attorney General Dave Yost on Thursday asked an Eastern Ohio court to dismiss a criminal charge against diner owners who re-opened in early May, before the state’s coronavirus ban on sit-down dining was lifted.
Dwight and Vicki Brearley reopened their National Road Diner near Cambridge to customers on May 6, even though the DeWine administration didn’t lift its order prohibiting inside dining until May 21.
After they ignored warnings, Guernsey County Health Commissioner Dr. Edward Colby charged the couple with one count of failure to prevent a threat to the public during a pandemic, epidemic or bioterrorism event, a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $750 fine. The Brearleys have pleaded not guilty.
It’s believed to be the first time that anyone has been prosecuted under Ohio’s 134-year-old quarantine statute, according to the Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian.
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I assume these prestigious institutes that gave out very wrong numbers early on get paid for what they do. In the private world if an accounting firm was so far off on their numbers they would be fired or let go of immediately and a new firm would be used.
hell if I gave very wrong data to my boss once at the investment Bank I used to work for I probably would have been let go. If I was lucky enough to get a warning I would have been fired the second time. I saw it happen.
I wonder if anybody will be held accountable or suffer any ramifications
How does a “guideline” lead to criminal charges?
All these petty tyrants at local, state, and federal level better face some opposition and payback, the bastards.
Just tell the diner owners to identify as black.
Tell the Judge that everyone in the Diner was really PROTESTING!@@
They knew all along. I am convinced of it.
The real question is who in government is responsible for the billions in damages to small business, who is culpable for violations of contracts to where business owners could not deliver goods or services as per contract?
Or is this another case where the government wielding it’s powers isn’t responsible for anything they break?
The other question is who gave the government the power to make these decisions that violate basic civil rights and without any sort of declaration of marshal law etc. Just sort of slip in curfews, rules against public assembly... Was war declared? Marshal law? Where did the powers to suspend basic constitutional rights come from? Can any state judge now make rules that violate the Constitution and rob me of my constitutional rights even if I did nothing wrong?
Ping
From Ohio. DeWine is a dunce. About 5’3” and was a DA, state legislator, US Senator, Attorney General and now Governor. All highly UNdistinguished! Loves media and headlines. I think he started the stampede which is odd for an R. He says he relied heavily on HIS health commissioner, a neophyte low in her class Doctor Amy Acton. When she caught flack, they screamed “anti-Semitism”! What? Who knew Acton was a Jewess? Anyway. She and he had a show on TV every day at 2 which Ohioans called “Whine with DeWine”. They played God. Sickening, Best news this week is the shrew resigned BUT DeWine will keep her as an advisor.
I’ve been reading that the misguided Michigan scold Governor is Soros’ daughter. Snopes is confused. Whether she is or not, I can vouch for the FACT that DeWine is Soros’s illegitimate midget son!
Better yet Black Muslim
OHIO PING!
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Ohio AG Dave Yost argues diner owners who reopened early shouldn’t face criminal charges
Cleveland.com ^ | June 11, 2020 | Jeremy Pelzer
Posted on 6/11/2020, 5:28:33 PM by CheshireTheCat
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