Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Refuses To Correct illegal Case Docket In Alleged Harassment Of Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough
Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner
Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes
Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman
From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and
the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough has illegally denied a motion by the attorney of African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman to correct the online case docket to reflect the proper filing of documents in a criminal case before her involving the 16-year writer and outspoken community activist. Coleman called the denial by Keough another indication of her unfitness for the bench and her harassment of Blacks, women and the Black media.
"This judge does not seem to know right from wrong anymore," said Coleman. "On May 22, 2009 a motion for an extension to secure a new attorney to file a post verdict acquittal motion and a motion for a new trial around an illegal resisting arrest verdict that Judge Keough orchestrated was filed but the case docket incorrectly denotes that it was filed on May 26, 2009."
Coleman contends that Keough is trying to hurt a subsequent appeal where the resisting arrest finding came via a jury verdict on May 8, 2009 that followed a two day trial where Keough allegedly issued fraudulent jury instructions in an obsessed attempt to get the verdict relative to an endorsement allegedly promised regarding her current run for a seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. Coleman said that that activity, and a host of other illegal maneuver's by the judge before and during trial, sealed the jury verdict even though sole White male arresting peace officer Gerald Pace did not testify, file a complaint, or even allege that Coleman resisted his arrest.
According to an official transcript of the trial proceedings, Keough and Coleman's trial lawyer, Carole A. Lohr, assisted prosecutors for the City of Cleveland who lied and told the jury that running was resisting arrest, brought in somebody to testify for Pace in violation of the Ohio Rules of Evidence, and simply made a mockery of the trial. Though the jury issued a verdict against Coleman on the charge of resisting arrest, it found her not guilty of all other charges as to aggravated disorderly conduct, obstruction of official business and making false alarms. The charges came two months after Coleman was arrested and jailed in the county without charges upon leaving a civil hearing at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Aug. 7, 2008.
Trial testimony revealed that Cuyahoga Judge Timothy McGinty set up the illegal arrest in retaliation for a lawsuit still before him alleging malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress. That lawsuit was filed after Coleman, in 2005, was exonerated by a Shaker Hts., Oh. jury of a criminal charge that she says was in retaliation for a series of articles written by her and published in the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper around alleged housing discrimination against Blacks by Shaker Heights officials. Cuyahoga Judge John O'Donnell, trial testimony also revealed, helped McGinty set up the Aug. 7 arrest by luring Coleman to an unnecessary civil hearing before him that day in alleged retaliation for civil litigation before him regarding Coleman's mortgage company, Chase Manhattan Mortgage Company.
After being held in the county jail for four days where Coleman says she was given a knockout drug and potentially raped in retaliation for Call and Post articles, extensive research as to corruption by University of Akron officials against Blacks and women, and alleged judicial corruption from the Ohio Supreme Court level all the way down to the municipal courts of Cuyahoga County, she was released without charges. Then on Sept. 30, 2008, with the sanctioning of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, whose subordinate called the Call and Post to seek to get officials there to quiet Coleman, Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi brought the criminal charges on behalf of the City of Cleveland that were before Keough. She, says Coleman, was hand picked to carry out a mission that met obstacles because they underestimated the integrity of a particular Call and Post official, her tenacity, and the resolve of the grassroots factions and certain local media personalities.
Coleman says that following the resisting arrest verdict Keough removed Lohr as paid counsel for her for impropriety at trial and got Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner to falsify the date upon which Coleman sought an extension to hire new counsel to move to throw out the resisting arrest verdict and seek a new trial. Documents reveal that though it was time stamped and filed timely on May 22, 2009, Keough and Turner have it docketed as May 26, 2009 so that it would be seen as untimely on appeal if Coleman were to alleged that Keough erred in denying any such extension motion.
Coleman has not yet been sentenced on the resisting arrest verdict where she says that her attorney, her father, Dr. James M. Coleman, and others have advised her not to go near Keough, whom some have branded a runaway judge hellbent on destroying the Black journalist at any costs.
Two weeks ago Coleman's new attorney, Wayne Kerek, moved Keough to correct the case docket to reflect the correct date of May 22, 2009 as to the filing of an extension motion to seek new counsel to move to dismiss the resisting arrest verdict and request a new trial on the finding by the jury of resisting arrest. Kerek did so after what he says were several meetings with Turner's chief administrator, Ron Tabor, where Kerek said Tabor, on three occasions, promised to to change the date of the filing to properly reflect that it had been filed on May 22, 2009 but had not done so.
In denying Kerek's request to correct the case docket to reflect the correct filing date of the extension motion to get an attorney to seek dismissal of the jury verdict and move for a new trial, Keough entered a journal entry on the case docket dated April 13, 2010 where she says a corrected date is unnecessary since the extension motion to get counsel to seek dismissal of the resisting arrest verdict and move for a new trial is time stamped on May 22, 2009 and that the incorrect date of May 26, 2009 that is reflected on the case docket does not matter because the time stamp speaks for itself.
"My research reveals that Judge Keough and Clerk of Court Earl B. Turner regularly falsify the case docket as to criminal proceedings in the Cleveland Municipal Court," Coleman said. "Case law is explicit in noting that a judge speaks through his or her journal entries and that a case docket is to reflect the date upon which documents are filed and time stamped, not the later date that they hope it would have been filed to hurt Blacks and others relative to any appeal of an illegal verdict and malicious prosecution like I experienced."
According to Coleman Keough, who is White, is protected by higher judges and certain colleagues as well as the mainstream media in doing as she pleases to Blacks and women in violation of the law. In a meeting with Cleveland NAACP officials around the Coleman matter Kerek allegedly told Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Stanley Miller that he questions whether Keough is "stable mentally."
Coleman says she awaits intervention by Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, who is also general counsel for the Call and Post, though she says that McGinty has tried to manipulate NAACP officials into allowing through silence the disenfranchisement of Blacks by some judges in municipal and county courts of Cuyahoga County.
Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner
Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes
Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman
From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and
the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough has illegally denied a motion by the attorney of African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman to correct the online case docket to reflect the proper filing of documents in a criminal case before her involving the 16-year writer and outspoken community activist. Coleman called the denial by Keough another indication of her unfitness for the bench and her harassment of Blacks, women and the Black media.
"This judge does not seem to know right from wrong anymore," said Coleman. "On May 22, 2009 a motion for an extension to secure a new attorney to file a post verdict acquittal motion and a motion for a new trial around an illegal resisting arrest verdict that Judge Keough orchestrated was filed but the case docket incorrectly denotes that it was filed on May 26, 2009."
Coleman contends that Keough is trying to hurt a subsequent appeal where the resisting arrest finding came via a jury verdict on May 8, 2009 that followed a two day trial where Keough allegedly issued fraudulent jury instructions in an obsessed attempt to get the verdict relative to an endorsement allegedly promised regarding her current run for a seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. Coleman said that that activity, and a host of other illegal maneuver's by the judge before and during trial, sealed the jury verdict even though sole White male arresting peace officer Gerald Pace did not testify, file a complaint, or even allege that Coleman resisted his arrest.
According to an official transcript of the trial proceedings, Keough and Coleman's trial lawyer, Carole A. Lohr, assisted prosecutors for the City of Cleveland who lied and told the jury that running was resisting arrest, brought in somebody to testify for Pace in violation of the Ohio Rules of Evidence, and simply made a mockery of the trial. Though the jury issued a verdict against Coleman on the charge of resisting arrest, it found her not guilty of all other charges as to aggravated disorderly conduct, obstruction of official business and making false alarms. The charges came two months after Coleman was arrested and jailed in the county without charges upon leaving a civil hearing at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Aug. 7, 2008.
Trial testimony revealed that Cuyahoga Judge Timothy McGinty set up the illegal arrest in retaliation for a lawsuit still before him alleging malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress. That lawsuit was filed after Coleman, in 2005, was exonerated by a Shaker Hts., Oh. jury of a criminal charge that she says was in retaliation for a series of articles written by her and published in the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper around alleged housing discrimination against Blacks by Shaker Heights officials. Cuyahoga Judge John O'Donnell, trial testimony also revealed, helped McGinty set up the Aug. 7 arrest by luring Coleman to an unnecessary civil hearing before him that day in alleged retaliation for civil litigation before him regarding Coleman's mortgage company, Chase Manhattan Mortgage Company.
After being held in the county jail for four days where Coleman says she was given a knockout drug and potentially raped in retaliation for Call and Post articles, extensive research as to corruption by University of Akron officials against Blacks and women, and alleged judicial corruption from the Ohio Supreme Court level all the way down to the municipal courts of Cuyahoga County, she was released without charges. Then on Sept. 30, 2008, with the sanctioning of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, whose subordinate called the Call and Post to seek to get officials there to quiet Coleman, Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi brought the criminal charges on behalf of the City of Cleveland that were before Keough. She, says Coleman, was hand picked to carry out a mission that met obstacles because they underestimated the integrity of a particular Call and Post official, her tenacity, and the resolve of the grassroots factions and certain local media personalities.
Coleman says that following the resisting arrest verdict Keough removed Lohr as paid counsel for her for impropriety at trial and got Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner to falsify the date upon which Coleman sought an extension to hire new counsel to move to throw out the resisting arrest verdict and seek a new trial. Documents reveal that though it was time stamped and filed timely on May 22, 2009, Keough and Turner have it docketed as May 26, 2009 so that it would be seen as untimely on appeal if Coleman were to alleged that Keough erred in denying any such extension motion.
Coleman has not yet been sentenced on the resisting arrest verdict where she says that her attorney, her father, Dr. James M. Coleman, and others have advised her not to go near Keough, whom some have branded a runaway judge hellbent on destroying the Black journalist at any costs.
Two weeks ago Coleman's new attorney, Wayne Kerek, moved Keough to correct the case docket to reflect the correct date of May 22, 2009 as to the filing of an extension motion to seek new counsel to move to dismiss the resisting arrest verdict and request a new trial on the finding by the jury of resisting arrest. Kerek did so after what he says were several meetings with Turner's chief administrator, Ron Tabor, where Kerek said Tabor, on three occasions, promised to to change the date of the filing to properly reflect that it had been filed on May 22, 2009 but had not done so.
In denying Kerek's request to correct the case docket to reflect the correct filing date of the extension motion to get an attorney to seek dismissal of the jury verdict and move for a new trial, Keough entered a journal entry on the case docket dated April 13, 2010 where she says a corrected date is unnecessary since the extension motion to get counsel to seek dismissal of the resisting arrest verdict and move for a new trial is time stamped on May 22, 2009 and that the incorrect date of May 26, 2009 that is reflected on the case docket does not matter because the time stamp speaks for itself.
"My research reveals that Judge Keough and Clerk of Court Earl B. Turner regularly falsify the case docket as to criminal proceedings in the Cleveland Municipal Court," Coleman said. "Case law is explicit in noting that a judge speaks through his or her journal entries and that a case docket is to reflect the date upon which documents are filed and time stamped, not the later date that they hope it would have been filed to hurt Blacks and others relative to any appeal of an illegal verdict and malicious prosecution like I experienced."
According to Coleman Keough, who is White, is protected by higher judges and certain colleagues as well as the mainstream media in doing as she pleases to Blacks and women in violation of the law. In a meeting with Cleveland NAACP officials around the Coleman matter Kerek allegedly told Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Stanley Miller that he questions whether Keough is "stable mentally."
Coleman says she awaits intervention by Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, who is also general counsel for the Call and Post, though she says that McGinty has tried to manipulate NAACP officials into allowing through silence the disenfranchisement of Blacks by some judges in municipal and county courts of Cuyahoga County.
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