Call and Post Endorses Judge Suster Over Judge Keough Following Her Criticism Of It And Her Ongoing Harassment of Black Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Ronald Suster
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough
Cleveland Area Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman
From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the
Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
The Call and Post Newspaper on Wednesday endorsed Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ron Suster over controversial Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough for a seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals as to the upcoming May 4 Democratic primary. Other Democratic contenders include attorneys Lori Anne Dyke, Margaret Gardner, and Robert Shea, and Michael T. Fisher, an assistant attorney general. The winner will face Republican Brian Moriarty in the Nov. general election. Suster is also endorsed by the Norman Minor Bar Association, a venue of Black attorneys of the Cleveland Metropolitan area.
"We are pleased that the Call and Post chose not to endorse Judge Keough following her undue criticism of it and articles that it published that highlighted her illegal harassment of me and blatant disregard for the law," said Coleman. "When you target a writer for a newspaper, whether that person is a consistent freelance writer over the years or a regular reporter, you are also taking on the editor and the newspaper itself. The next step is to work hard at urging voters to take this woman off the bench if she runs next year for reelection in Cleveland, for the betterment of the Black community and others."
Keough is under fire by local grassroots organizations for her alleged harassment of Coleman, a freelance journalist of 16 years whose articles appeared since 1993 in the Call and Post, a Cleveland weekly that targets the Black community. In 2008 alone the newspaper published 38 articles written by the community activist, activity that Coleman says prompted a malicious prosecution by the City of Cleveland led by White male Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi, and pursued with Keough's help via the alleged promise of an endorsement from a ranking Cleveland city official and a prominent local newspaper. That newspaper allegedly endorsed Keough hoping she might win the Democratic primary and then subsequently lose the Nov. general election to Republican Moriarity where Suster is a sitting county judge and Keough, in spite of several attempts, has yet to win a countywide election.
"What goes around comes around," said Coleman "Judge Keough apparently thought she had it made until powerful members of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party urged Suster to run, allegedly branding her a closet Republican and a pawn for a mainstream Republican newspaper."
Since Suster is a frontrunner Coleman says that Keough is now trying to court the Black community by begging to get on Black radio talk shows and buying ads from the Call and Post, the newspaper she told jurors not to read in a case before her, though she did so in a racially biased fashion in that she did not even mention the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio Largest newspaper, or any other mainstream media venue.
Wayne Kerek, who is Coleman's paid post trial attorney relative to the criminal case pending before Keough, says his client was railroaded with an illegal resisting arrest jury verdict in a two day trial before Keough held last May even though sole White male arresting peace officer Gerald Pace did not testify or even accuse her of it, meaning that Coleman was denied her constitutional right to confront her non-existent accuser in addition to other illegalities, many of which were allegedly perpetuated with Keough's help and direction. After trial Keough dismissed Carole A. Lohr, Coleman's trial lawyer, after Coleman complained about the paid lawyer's alleged impropriety.
"I've never seen anything like it and I am White," said Kerek, a veteran attorney of 25 years. "Kathy was denied compulsory process to cross examine the alleged witness against her when that so-called witness did not even accuse her of resisting arrest or any other crime and both the Call and Post and Black leaders should be alarmed by this injustice against a Black woman and one of their own."
The charges that were before Keough, which in addition to resisting arrest include making false alarms, aggravated disorderly conduct and obstruction of official business, were filed on behalf of the City of Cleveland on Sept. 30 2008, two months after Coleman was released from the county jail without charges via an arrest in the Justice Center in Cleveland on Aug 7 of 2008. After holding her for four days in the county jail, where she says she was harassed over news articles and held naked by a disgruntled male supervisor, Coleman says that Cleveland intervened months later with a malicious prosecution to try to stop a lawsuit against county officials and others involved with the illegal jailing, one filed by Kerek on her behalf anyway.
At trial Keough told the jury not to read the Call and Post and prosecutors in closing arguments prepared by Triozzi made fun of it saying nobody reads it, though it was Call and Post officials who sent prominent attorney Sara Harper to get Coleman out of the county jail in 2008 where she was released without charges.
In unsuccessfully prosecuting her in Cleveland Coleman says that Cleveland officials simply made more liability trouble since the jury exonerated her on all charges but resisting arrest and that verdict is in question as illegal where the arresting officer did not even accuse her of resisting his arrest. She says also that her trial experience, where she took the stand and denied all of the charges against her as retaliation for her articles and community activism, reminds her of the "Jim Crow" days and reveals that Blacks and others are at risk as to malicious prosecutions in the City of Cleveland per Triozzi and seemingly corrupt judges like Keough.
"The malfeasance was stunning where Judge Keough actually got up in the middle of trial at one point to take over for the prosecution that she apparently viewed as inept, seeking sweeping convictions," said Coleman. "She then allowed the prosecution to bring in somebody to testify for Pace regarding the charge of allegedly resisting his arrest and directed the jury to deliberate with the hearsay testimony as evidence, which violates the Ohio Rules of Evidence where the arresting officer must appear to testify. And, before encouraging and illegally allowing a juror to ask unwritten questions in the middle of trial that prosecutors ineptly failed to ask of their own witnesses, Judge Keough allowed the prosecution to commit prosecutorial misconduct by lying in telling the jury that allegedly running before an arrest, which I did not do, is resisting arrest, when it is instead failure to comply with a peace officer's order."
Coleman has yet to be sentenced and Kerek will this week ask Keough, who is White, for a hearing to get the illegal resisting arrest verdict thrown out. She says, however, that given Keough's ongoing disregard of the law and apparent disdain for the Black community she is not optimistic as to any fair play on her part. And, earlier this year Kerek told Cleveland NAACP officials that he questions the judge's "mental stability."
"This judge will stop at nothing and her most egregious act," said Coleman, "is that she is posing as a therapist without a license and illegally harassing Blacks with false diagnoses in alleged retaliation for free speech issues and other matters of public concern." According to the journalist, other Cleveland Municipal Court judges are allegedly doing similar things under the leadership of Keough, who volunteered to head the Cleveland Municipal Court Psychiatric Clinic in place of licensed personnel and via what some say is a conflict of interest as to her judgeship. The judge is also accused of using the clinic to experiment with Black people.
Coleman says that the last time she can remember this type of alleged malfeasance occurring regarding experimentation was years ago when Black men were inserted with syphilis for research. Keough, she claims, is taking Blacks back to the 1960s.
"If Judge Keough were Black like Judges Shirley Strickland Saffold, Alison Nelson Floyd and Angela Stokes the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper would rake her through the coals, '" said Coleman. "Racism is obviously alive and well in our courts and in the media and Black leaders will jump on a band wagon against Judge Strickland Saffold while ignoring what Judge Keough does because they are afraid to challenge racist activity."
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Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough
Cleveland Area Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman
From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the
Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
The Call and Post Newspaper on Wednesday endorsed Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ron Suster over controversial Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough for a seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals as to the upcoming May 4 Democratic primary. Other Democratic contenders include attorneys Lori Anne Dyke, Margaret Gardner, and Robert Shea, and Michael T. Fisher, an assistant attorney general. The winner will face Republican Brian Moriarty in the Nov. general election. Suster is also endorsed by the Norman Minor Bar Association, a venue of Black attorneys of the Cleveland Metropolitan area.
"We are pleased that the Call and Post chose not to endorse Judge Keough following her undue criticism of it and articles that it published that highlighted her illegal harassment of me and blatant disregard for the law," said Coleman. "When you target a writer for a newspaper, whether that person is a consistent freelance writer over the years or a regular reporter, you are also taking on the editor and the newspaper itself. The next step is to work hard at urging voters to take this woman off the bench if she runs next year for reelection in Cleveland, for the betterment of the Black community and others."
Keough is under fire by local grassroots organizations for her alleged harassment of Coleman, a freelance journalist of 16 years whose articles appeared since 1993 in the Call and Post, a Cleveland weekly that targets the Black community. In 2008 alone the newspaper published 38 articles written by the community activist, activity that Coleman says prompted a malicious prosecution by the City of Cleveland led by White male Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi, and pursued with Keough's help via the alleged promise of an endorsement from a ranking Cleveland city official and a prominent local newspaper. That newspaper allegedly endorsed Keough hoping she might win the Democratic primary and then subsequently lose the Nov. general election to Republican Moriarity where Suster is a sitting county judge and Keough, in spite of several attempts, has yet to win a countywide election.
"What goes around comes around," said Coleman "Judge Keough apparently thought she had it made until powerful members of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party urged Suster to run, allegedly branding her a closet Republican and a pawn for a mainstream Republican newspaper."
Since Suster is a frontrunner Coleman says that Keough is now trying to court the Black community by begging to get on Black radio talk shows and buying ads from the Call and Post, the newspaper she told jurors not to read in a case before her, though she did so in a racially biased fashion in that she did not even mention the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio Largest newspaper, or any other mainstream media venue.
Wayne Kerek, who is Coleman's paid post trial attorney relative to the criminal case pending before Keough, says his client was railroaded with an illegal resisting arrest jury verdict in a two day trial before Keough held last May even though sole White male arresting peace officer Gerald Pace did not testify or even accuse her of it, meaning that Coleman was denied her constitutional right to confront her non-existent accuser in addition to other illegalities, many of which were allegedly perpetuated with Keough's help and direction. After trial Keough dismissed Carole A. Lohr, Coleman's trial lawyer, after Coleman complained about the paid lawyer's alleged impropriety.
"I've never seen anything like it and I am White," said Kerek, a veteran attorney of 25 years. "Kathy was denied compulsory process to cross examine the alleged witness against her when that so-called witness did not even accuse her of resisting arrest or any other crime and both the Call and Post and Black leaders should be alarmed by this injustice against a Black woman and one of their own."
The charges that were before Keough, which in addition to resisting arrest include making false alarms, aggravated disorderly conduct and obstruction of official business, were filed on behalf of the City of Cleveland on Sept. 30 2008, two months after Coleman was released from the county jail without charges via an arrest in the Justice Center in Cleveland on Aug 7 of 2008. After holding her for four days in the county jail, where she says she was harassed over news articles and held naked by a disgruntled male supervisor, Coleman says that Cleveland intervened months later with a malicious prosecution to try to stop a lawsuit against county officials and others involved with the illegal jailing, one filed by Kerek on her behalf anyway.
At trial Keough told the jury not to read the Call and Post and prosecutors in closing arguments prepared by Triozzi made fun of it saying nobody reads it, though it was Call and Post officials who sent prominent attorney Sara Harper to get Coleman out of the county jail in 2008 where she was released without charges.
In unsuccessfully prosecuting her in Cleveland Coleman says that Cleveland officials simply made more liability trouble since the jury exonerated her on all charges but resisting arrest and that verdict is in question as illegal where the arresting officer did not even accuse her of resisting his arrest. She says also that her trial experience, where she took the stand and denied all of the charges against her as retaliation for her articles and community activism, reminds her of the "Jim Crow" days and reveals that Blacks and others are at risk as to malicious prosecutions in the City of Cleveland per Triozzi and seemingly corrupt judges like Keough.
"The malfeasance was stunning where Judge Keough actually got up in the middle of trial at one point to take over for the prosecution that she apparently viewed as inept, seeking sweeping convictions," said Coleman. "She then allowed the prosecution to bring in somebody to testify for Pace regarding the charge of allegedly resisting his arrest and directed the jury to deliberate with the hearsay testimony as evidence, which violates the Ohio Rules of Evidence where the arresting officer must appear to testify. And, before encouraging and illegally allowing a juror to ask unwritten questions in the middle of trial that prosecutors ineptly failed to ask of their own witnesses, Judge Keough allowed the prosecution to commit prosecutorial misconduct by lying in telling the jury that allegedly running before an arrest, which I did not do, is resisting arrest, when it is instead failure to comply with a peace officer's order."
Coleman has yet to be sentenced and Kerek will this week ask Keough, who is White, for a hearing to get the illegal resisting arrest verdict thrown out. She says, however, that given Keough's ongoing disregard of the law and apparent disdain for the Black community she is not optimistic as to any fair play on her part. And, earlier this year Kerek told Cleveland NAACP officials that he questions the judge's "mental stability."
"This judge will stop at nothing and her most egregious act," said Coleman, "is that she is posing as a therapist without a license and illegally harassing Blacks with false diagnoses in alleged retaliation for free speech issues and other matters of public concern." According to the journalist, other Cleveland Municipal Court judges are allegedly doing similar things under the leadership of Keough, who volunteered to head the Cleveland Municipal Court Psychiatric Clinic in place of licensed personnel and via what some say is a conflict of interest as to her judgeship. The judge is also accused of using the clinic to experiment with Black people.
Coleman says that the last time she can remember this type of alleged malfeasance occurring regarding experimentation was years ago when Black men were inserted with syphilis for research. Keough, she claims, is taking Blacks back to the 1960s.
"If Judge Keough were Black like Judges Shirley Strickland Saffold, Alison Nelson Floyd and Angela Stokes the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper would rake her through the coals, '" said Coleman. "Racism is obviously alive and well in our courts and in the media and Black leaders will jump on a band wagon against Judge Strickland Saffold while ignoring what Judge Keough does because they are afraid to challenge racist activity."
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