COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio is celebrating a major legal victory after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that police officers attacked in the line of duty are entitled to full protections under Marsy’s Law.

The case originated from a challenge brought by The Columbus Dispatch against the City of Columbus, questioning whether on-duty officers could legally be considered crime victims. In a strong majority opinion written by Justice Patrick DeWine, the Court rejected the newspaper’s argument that law enforcement personnel “can never be victims” while working.

Justice DeWine called that interpretation unsupported and directly at odds with the language added to the Ohio Constitution in 2017, stating plainly that officers “easily fall within [Marsy’s Law’s] scope… Beca

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