Ohio choose orders man to get vaccinated as a part of probation

CINCINNATI — A Widespread Pleas Decide in Cincinnati has ordered a person being sentenced on a felony drug cost to get vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 inside two months as a situation of his probation.

Decide Christopher Wagner’s workplace emailed a press release on Friday together with a transcript of Wednesday’s listening to involving Brandon Rutherford, 21. Rutherford pleaded responsible in June to possessing the artificial opioid fentanyl.

“This defendant was in possession of fentanyl, which is deadlier than the vaccine and COVID 19,” Wagner’s assertion stated. “The defendant expressed no objection through the proceedings and acknowledged no medical issues, and his legal professional didn’t object. We should see what occurs now that the defendant is expressing opposition.”

Wagner instructed Rutherford he presumed he hadn’t been vaccinated as a result of he was carrying a masks, which Rutherford confirmed.

When requested, Rutherford instructed the choose he wasn’t frightened in regards to the vaccine. “I simply by no means went to get it,” he stated.

Rutherford’s legal professional, Carl Lewis, instructed WCPO-TV, which first reported the sentence, he had by no means heard of a choose issuing such an order.

“If he really believes that he is inside his authority to order the person to get a vaccine, then we’ll have some authorized points,” Lewis stated.

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This story has been up to date to right the title of the one that pleaded responsible. Rutherford pleaded responsible, not Wagner.