Shaker Heights Judge K J Montgomery is a racist drunk who issues high bonds against Blacks and uses Black attorneys that practice in her court to serve as judge in her place to maliciously prosecute Black people, data show and says journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman.....Coleman beat a malicious misdemeanor charge and was allegedly told by a White juror after trial that Montgomery, who is White and recused herself from the case and assigned Black attorney Fred Crosby to sit in for her, sat in the backroom during jury deliberations and tried to push a conviction on illegal jury instructions... Attorney Terry Gilbert was Coleman's hired lawyer in the criminal case....Coleman said that she sued for malicious prosecution and then Judge Timothy McGinty, now a vicious county prosecutor ousted in last week's election, harassed her when she was alone in his office and in the case and has continued stalking her for 10 years.....Coleman says that Brelo trial court judge John O'Donnell has stalked and harassed her for over 12 years using a civil case and her University Heights home for bate in a case that has no plaintiff and without her mortgage company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, suing her......Coleman says that McGinty and O'Donnell are racist, sexist, corrupt and mentally unhinged.....By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news
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| Shaker Heights Municipal Court Judge K.J. Montgomery, an alleged drunk who issues high bonds against the Black community and uses Black lawyers that practice in her court to stand in for her as judge to maliciously prosecute Blacks and whom journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman says has stalked and harassed her since 2005 |
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| Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a former longtime common pleas judge who was ousted last week as prosecutor in the Democratic primary election by Michael O'Malley, and whom journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman says has stalked and harassed her since 2006 beginning in his office where they were alone following a status conference in a then malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by Coleman against the City of Beachwood and others |
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, who acquitted former Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges last year in the shooting death of two unarmed Blacks, and whom journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman says has sexually harassed and stalked her for 12 years using a civil case involving her home in University Heights for bate. O' Donnell, whom Coleman says is racist, sexist, corrupt and mentally unhinged, is the Democratic candidate for an open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court
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| Kathy Wray Coleman |
"This White judge is a racist and corrupt drunk who rarely goes to work and who issues high bonds against the Black community, and she needs to be indicted on criminal charges," said longtime community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who says that Montgomery targeted her for housing discrimination articles she wrote that were published in the Call and Post Newspaper, a Black Cleveland weekly, and for leading pickets regarding housing discrimination in Shaker Heights against Blacks and the elderly and affiliated criminal prosecutions. (Editor's note: The bonds are excessively high against Blacks and some quadruple the bond former Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo received in the common pleas court from former judge Lance Mason as to manslaughter charges. And some of the high bonds are for low level felony charges. When felony cases are bounded over to the common pleas court the high bonds go with them. Montgomery does the majority White common pleas judges there a favor, sources say, and to the detriment of the Black community. Moreover, she is bringing felony charges against Blacks and women per police and without the investigation required by state law, the investigation also reveals).
Also at issue, said Coleman, among other factors, is still pending 12-year litigation on her University Heights home before Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell (Editor's note: Public records show that O'Donnell stalked and sexually harassed Coleman for 12 years in a civil case using her home for bate and then tried to hand the home worth $150,000 to JPMorgan Chase Bank for $36,000 without it, her alleged mortgage company of 11 years, even suing her. The plaintiff in the case is a fictions mortgage company that has been out of business for 10 to 15 years, and Coleman says that Chase used four law firms and 15 high -paid lawyers in the litigation but has not sued her. See Cuyahoga County Case No, CV03505359. O'Donnell, says Coleman, allegedly got kick back monies from Chase attorneys to keep the case pending for some 12 years But the real reasons, said Coleman, are that he is "corrupt, racist, sexist and mentally unhinged").
Court records show that Coleman was prosecuted in 2005 in the Shaker Heights court for alleged telecommunications harassment, a case filed by the City of Beachwood that she beat after hiring prominent Cleveland Criminal Defense Attorney Terry Gilbert. The case, says Coleman, was frivolous to the hilt, and was retaliation for free speech, and was politically motivated as to Call and Post articles on the Cleveland mayoral race that she also wrote.
Montgomery rescued herself from the case after Gilbert filed an affidavit of prejudice saying that the judge, Beachwood prosecutor Thomas Greve and since fired Beachwood law director Margaret Anne Cannon were harssing Coleman, a former biology teacher and 23-year journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post, and who now edits Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper.
Coleman's activism and Call and Post articles were key to the harassment, Gilbert wrote in the affidavit of prejudice against Montgomery on behalf of his client. The judge then reused herself from the case and assigned local criminal defense attorney Fred Crosby, who is Black and practices in the court, to act as a judge in her place.
According to Coleman, who leads the local grassroots group the Imperial Women Coalition, Montgomery, also a former Shaker Heights prosecutor, sat in the backroom during jury deliberations in a failed effort to get her convicted with illegal jury instructions, a White juror told Coleman after trial, Coleman says. When Coleman was cleared she says Montgomery's harassment escalated and she would send her bailiffs, one of whom was arrested last month on suspicion of DUI, to come to her home in University Heights to stalk her.
At issue in the 2005 malicious criminal prosecution was an expert witness that Coleman hired as to the 12-year- litigation before O'Donnell relative to her University Heights home. The expert witness, Myrna R. Gill, urged Coleman, who was acting in the case pro se, or for self, to call for discovery documents and then lied and said that she called her three times in November 2004 when she allegedly told her not to. She then filed a police report with Beachwood police and Coleman said they agreed to drop the case if she would agree to certain parameters unrelated to the case.
And though public records in the case reveal that Coleman and Gill had met at least 10 times after that in the following year and before the criminal case was filed, evidence that the three phone call made to Gill in 2004 that form the basis of the telecommunications complaint were legitimate, Montgomery, and her Black sit-in- lawyer- of- a- judge named Fred Crosby, would not dismiss the case, and used it to further harass her.
A police report alleging perjury filed by Coleman against Gill after trial was ignored by a special prosecutor, data show, and in spite of its validity.
Coleman subsequently sued the city of Beachwood and others for malicious prosecution, among other claims, and the case was handed to then common pleas judge Tim McGinty, the current Cuyahoga County prosecutor ousted in last week's democratic primary election. Coleman said that McGinty would approve extensions and what ever attorneys for the defendants wanted, and that he got her alone in his office and threatened her. He then dismissed the case erroneously and tried to make Coleman pay Gill, who is White, which was moot where it requires a separate lawsuit.
McGinty, the community activists says, has been stalking her along with judges Montgomery and O'Donnell and police ever since.
Data show that McGinty even filed an illegal pleading before O'Donnell in the 12-year litigation on Coleman' home, which is still pending, and O'Donnell, in turn, refused to allow Coleman to continue to represent herself, part of his scheme to try and steal the home for nothing.
Coleman said that in addition to O'Donnell's sexually harassment in the 12-year stalker litigation, both him and McGinty have had police follow her around town and that she has been repeatedly arrested via racial profiling and stalking by police in various jurisdictions, cases such as she failed to give her name as passenger, a lie she says. And in one particular case her then lawyer, Wayne Kerek, lured her out to Middleburg Heights and police were waiting to stalk her, she says, and followed the car.Since then she has been harassed she says, by racist and corrupt Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock and visiting judge commissioned by the Ohio Supreme Court, a court angry over House Bill 216, a bill proposed by state Rep Bill Patmon (D-10) and pushed by Coleman and community activists that would require the random draw assignment and reassignment of Ohio trial court judges in multi-judge courts.
Coleman said that the harassment is also due in part to her activism as to violence against women, including the Imperial Avenue Murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by now death row inmate Anthony Sowell, who is seeking a new trial in the case.
"This judicial, police and other harassment has been a nightmare,"said Coleman, "And I need the harassment to stop."
O'Donnell is also the judge who last year acquitted former Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges for gunning down two unarmed Blacks in 2012 while slinging 49 bullets. And he is a Democratic candidate for an open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court.
"The last thing we need is for Judge O'Donnell to win a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court when he should be in prison for gross and documented housing theft, hate crimes against women and the Black community, Civil Rights violations and other illegalities." www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
