Cleveland Judge Kathleen Keough Accused Of More Corruption And Harassment Against Black Journalist As Is Clerk Turner
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough
From the Metro Desk of The Determiner Weekly.Com and
The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
(Cleveland, Ohio Area News)
Attorney Wayne Kerek has accused Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough and Cleveland Clerk of Court Earl B. Turner of acting in cooperation with one another to illegally have his client's bond raised from 10 percent of $3 thousand, which would have been $300, to $5 thousand cash as 10 percent of an unidentified overall bond figure on an allegedly illegal warrant issued by the judge, a local journalist claims.
Keough, on Sept. 25, 2009, issued a bench warrant with a 10 percent bond of $3 thousand for African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, who did not reappear before the judge for sentencing following a two day trial in May of 2009 where the judge is accused of orchestrating an illegal resisting arrest verdict even though sole White male arresting peace officer Gerald Pace did not accuse her of it or testify at trial, and Coleman denied the charge during her hour long testimony.
Jurors allegedly said after trial last May that they exonerated Coleman on other charges of making false alarms, aggravated disorderly conduct and obstruction of official business, all brought by the City of Cleveland after the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper in 2008 published some 38 articles written by the journalist of 15 years, due to her stunning testimony. But they said also that they were allegedly forced by Keough via unorthodox jury instructions, prosecutorial misconduct from assistant Cleveland prosecutors Lorraine Coyne and Joan Bascone that she allowed, and other alleged illegalities, to issue the illegal resisting arrest verdict.
Coleman says that she did not appear at sentencing last September before Keough where Kerek, who was not her attorney at trial, directed her not to, alleging that he feared for her safety and that the judge might be unstable, a comment he made again for Cleveland NAACP officials in a recent meeting where Coleman sought intervention relative to the judge's ongoing harassment because higher judicial officials are purportedly backing Keough allegedly because she is White and seemingly corrupt. Coleman is not only Black by cultural definition but also by virtue of the issues that she fights on behalf of the Black community as a journalist of consequence, and by some standards she is without a doubt, outspoken.
The case docket reveals that the initial bond was 10 percent of $3 thousand and that Keough set it last September after Coleman skipped sentencing allegedly per Kerek's advice. But on December 29, 2009 Keough, after a hearing to lift the warrant that Kerek says he missed and was not notified of, denied Kerek's request to lift the warrant issued last September, and she issued another bench warrant and capias, coupled with changing the bond terms by making the bond $3 thousand as 10 percent of an unidentified number. This meant that Coleman needed $3 thousand cash, the online public case docket reveals. Kerek did not tell her of the so-called December hearing as to potentially lifting the warrant and said he did not do so becaause he had kn ow knowledge of it and that Keough allegedly lied saying he attended.
Keough allegedly directed Kerek to make the same request for a warrant lifting hearing that he made in December 2009 on or about January 12, 2010 allegedly so that it could give her an illegal forum to increase the bond by claiming that his client missed another scheduled hearing , though it is illegal to rule twice on the merits of requests such as the motion to lift the warrant where if a second request is made and a previous one has already been ruled upon the judge is to deny the second request as moot. On February, 2, 2010 the runaway judge issued an identical ruling, denying the request to lift the warrant as she had allegedly orchestrated, and she also alleged that Coleman again failed to appear before her on that date, though at no time has Coleman been ordered to do so since last September when she skipped sentencing, the online case docket reveals.
The case docket reveals that also on February, 2 Keough issued another bench warrant and increased Coleman's bond to $5 thousand as 10 percent of some unidentified number, or $5 thousand cash. But because the judge allegedly needed a scheme to lure Coleman to court and then put her in jail, the journalist says she allegedly enlisted the help of Turner for assistance. Accordingly, he allegedly sent Coleman a letter dated February, 3 saying the new bond is $5 thousand dollars and that figure may or may not mean 10 percent of $5 thousand.
Coleman contends that it is all geared toward tricking her into appearing to post a bond via Turner's letter of a potential 10 percent of a $5 thousand bond or $500 dollars that he issued Feb 3. She adds that Keough would then lock her up if she does not bring thousands of dollars in cash for a bond by saying she ordered $5 thousand cash as 10 percent of some unidentified figure and not 10 percent of $5 thousand, or $500. According to Coleman, Keough could then jail her, giving her the vehicle to continue in jail the harassment that the journalist says she has imposed on her since 2008 when she was allegedly handed the case with an alleged promise of an endorsement by certain Democrats, and allegedly a powerful Republican out of Columbus, Oh., for the seat that she is now seeking on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals for a term commencing in 2011.
“These people are corrupt and despicable and we again call on the FBI to investigate as well as Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason,” said Coleman “Judge Keough can do as she pleases because I am Black and she is White, and people like Turner, who is Black, help her.”
Coleman said that her father has advised her to protect herself if Keough sends anybody in her home if the entrance is illegal and she fears for her life, where the journalist says the judge has repeatedly harassed her by having people call the house, and come on the property to bang on the door and blow the car horn for hours.
“I feel so unsafe now and I honestly believe that Judge Keough is potentially off as Kerek has repeatedly alleged, said Coleman. "I again ask Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes to intervene. "
Coleman says that the harassment has escalated since she recently met with NAACP officials and that certain people not affiliated with the NAACP directly have told her to keep quiet about the judicial corruption that is allegedly hurting the Black community for her own safety, including alleged case fixing as to the assignment processes for municipal court judges in Ohio.
" A now disbarred White female lawyer that challenged the illegal assignment processes for municipal court judges in Ohio where visiting judges that are retired are assigned throughout the state, some of whom come to town to allegedly violate the law and harass Democrats and others, is serving eight years in prison and I do believe that if Judge Keough gets me in jail as people have promised via threats I may not get out this time," said Coleman. "I therefore knew what to expect when corrupt visiting judge Guatalo Nunez of Lorain, Oh. was sent down on me to replace runaway Lyndhurst Municipal Court Judge Mary Kaye Bozza relative to a bogus criminal case against me that was dismissed in February 2009. I was threatened on behalf of certain judges when jailed in the county in 2008 by Nunez without any authority and released without charges after, of course, being held naked and given a knockout drug, where I had followed the case of disbarred and now imprisoned lawyer Elsebeth Baumgartner. The Lyndhurst case is the impetus for the malicious prosecution by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Law Director Robert Triozzi in Cleveland relative to the resisting arrest verdict before Keough where they had me attacked and arrested after leaving a civil hearing at the Justice Center in August 2008 with the help of Cuyahoga County Judges Timothy McGinty and John O'Donnell, though both had no criminal jurisdiction and were presiding over civil cases involving my mortgage company of Chase Manhattan Mortgage and the malicious prosecution issue where Shaker Heights, Oh. officials had me prosecuted to no avail for writing about alleged housing discrimination in the Call and Post."
The journalist said that she will be relieved when Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer retires this year and that Keough is taking her orders from a powerful group of people, an explanation, she says, for the judge's non stop harassment and blatant disregard for the law.
According to Coleman, Moyer is angry because she did Call and Post articles in 2008 that exposed the way he sends judges throughout the state to different locations rather than assigning sitting judges in the community that are accountable to voters, and because she filed a non monetary lawsuit after he assigned Nunez to replace Bozza relative to the subsequently dismissed criminal charge against her that was pending in Lyndhurst.
"There is a reason that Judge Keough can get away with doing as she pleases in violation of the law and I feel like a character in the motion picture movie titled 'The Pelican Brief," said Coleman.
Coleman said tat she hopes that Turner is prosecuted by Mason for the alleged tampering with public records regarding continual alleged illegalities with the case docket before Keough and before other judges in other cases, a felony offense.
In her case she says that Turner has falsified the dates of filings on Keough's case docket in hopes of hurting an appeal and that he fixed the case docket to illegally reflect numerous arrests when she has yet to be arrested in the matter before Keough.
According to Coleman, Keough's case docket also denotes numerous false charges of aggravated disorderly conduct that do not exist since she was exonerated last May of that charge, in what the journalist says is an attempt to defame her via a public online case docket because the judge is allegedly angry because all she could pull off relative to the trial last May that was before her and involved other bogus misdemeanor charges against the long time journalist was a simple resisting arrest verdict."
"She's holding on to that resisting arrest verdict for dear life and could have simply issued a fine after trial last May, even though the verdict is illegal, said Coleman " Instead, this seemingly corrupt judge set sentencing some seven weeks later, though it was rescheduled to last September, and began harassing me with telephone calls from her subordinates and harassing rulings geared to try to destroy me. I believe that she is just as potentially unstable as my attorney Wayne Kerek says she is , and he does not appear much removed from such an assessment himself where his slickness has come to haunt him."
According to Coleman, the Plain Dealer and Call and Post newspapers, and Nineteen Action News, have copies of the corrupted case docket before Judge Keough that Coleman says she just recently sent and the community activist says that other data has been reviewed by one of her former attorneys as to the judicial corruption and other corruption.
From the Metro Desk of The Determiner Weekly.Com and
The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
(Cleveland, Ohio Area News)
Attorney Wayne Kerek has accused Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough and Cleveland Clerk of Court Earl B. Turner of acting in cooperation with one another to illegally have his client's bond raised from 10 percent of $3 thousand, which would have been $300, to $5 thousand cash as 10 percent of an unidentified overall bond figure on an allegedly illegal warrant issued by the judge, a local journalist claims.
Keough, on Sept. 25, 2009, issued a bench warrant with a 10 percent bond of $3 thousand for African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, who did not reappear before the judge for sentencing following a two day trial in May of 2009 where the judge is accused of orchestrating an illegal resisting arrest verdict even though sole White male arresting peace officer Gerald Pace did not accuse her of it or testify at trial, and Coleman denied the charge during her hour long testimony.
Jurors allegedly said after trial last May that they exonerated Coleman on other charges of making false alarms, aggravated disorderly conduct and obstruction of official business, all brought by the City of Cleveland after the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper in 2008 published some 38 articles written by the journalist of 15 years, due to her stunning testimony. But they said also that they were allegedly forced by Keough via unorthodox jury instructions, prosecutorial misconduct from assistant Cleveland prosecutors Lorraine Coyne and Joan Bascone that she allowed, and other alleged illegalities, to issue the illegal resisting arrest verdict.
Coleman says that she did not appear at sentencing last September before Keough where Kerek, who was not her attorney at trial, directed her not to, alleging that he feared for her safety and that the judge might be unstable, a comment he made again for Cleveland NAACP officials in a recent meeting where Coleman sought intervention relative to the judge's ongoing harassment because higher judicial officials are purportedly backing Keough allegedly because she is White and seemingly corrupt. Coleman is not only Black by cultural definition but also by virtue of the issues that she fights on behalf of the Black community as a journalist of consequence, and by some standards she is without a doubt, outspoken.
The case docket reveals that the initial bond was 10 percent of $3 thousand and that Keough set it last September after Coleman skipped sentencing allegedly per Kerek's advice. But on December 29, 2009 Keough, after a hearing to lift the warrant that Kerek says he missed and was not notified of, denied Kerek's request to lift the warrant issued last September, and she issued another bench warrant and capias, coupled with changing the bond terms by making the bond $3 thousand as 10 percent of an unidentified number. This meant that Coleman needed $3 thousand cash, the online public case docket reveals. Kerek did not tell her of the so-called December hearing as to potentially lifting the warrant and said he did not do so becaause he had kn ow knowledge of it and that Keough allegedly lied saying he attended.
Keough allegedly directed Kerek to make the same request for a warrant lifting hearing that he made in December 2009 on or about January 12, 2010 allegedly so that it could give her an illegal forum to increase the bond by claiming that his client missed another scheduled hearing , though it is illegal to rule twice on the merits of requests such as the motion to lift the warrant where if a second request is made and a previous one has already been ruled upon the judge is to deny the second request as moot. On February, 2, 2010 the runaway judge issued an identical ruling, denying the request to lift the warrant as she had allegedly orchestrated, and she also alleged that Coleman again failed to appear before her on that date, though at no time has Coleman been ordered to do so since last September when she skipped sentencing, the online case docket reveals.
The case docket reveals that also on February, 2 Keough issued another bench warrant and increased Coleman's bond to $5 thousand as 10 percent of some unidentified number, or $5 thousand cash. But because the judge allegedly needed a scheme to lure Coleman to court and then put her in jail, the journalist says she allegedly enlisted the help of Turner for assistance. Accordingly, he allegedly sent Coleman a letter dated February, 3 saying the new bond is $5 thousand dollars and that figure may or may not mean 10 percent of $5 thousand.
Coleman contends that it is all geared toward tricking her into appearing to post a bond via Turner's letter of a potential 10 percent of a $5 thousand bond or $500 dollars that he issued Feb 3. She adds that Keough would then lock her up if she does not bring thousands of dollars in cash for a bond by saying she ordered $5 thousand cash as 10 percent of some unidentified figure and not 10 percent of $5 thousand, or $500. According to Coleman, Keough could then jail her, giving her the vehicle to continue in jail the harassment that the journalist says she has imposed on her since 2008 when she was allegedly handed the case with an alleged promise of an endorsement by certain Democrats, and allegedly a powerful Republican out of Columbus, Oh., for the seat that she is now seeking on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals for a term commencing in 2011.
“These people are corrupt and despicable and we again call on the FBI to investigate as well as Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason,” said Coleman “Judge Keough can do as she pleases because I am Black and she is White, and people like Turner, who is Black, help her.”
Coleman said that her father has advised her to protect herself if Keough sends anybody in her home if the entrance is illegal and she fears for her life, where the journalist says the judge has repeatedly harassed her by having people call the house, and come on the property to bang on the door and blow the car horn for hours.
“I feel so unsafe now and I honestly believe that Judge Keough is potentially off as Kerek has repeatedly alleged, said Coleman. "I again ask Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes to intervene. "
Coleman says that the harassment has escalated since she recently met with NAACP officials and that certain people not affiliated with the NAACP directly have told her to keep quiet about the judicial corruption that is allegedly hurting the Black community for her own safety, including alleged case fixing as to the assignment processes for municipal court judges in Ohio.
" A now disbarred White female lawyer that challenged the illegal assignment processes for municipal court judges in Ohio where visiting judges that are retired are assigned throughout the state, some of whom come to town to allegedly violate the law and harass Democrats and others, is serving eight years in prison and I do believe that if Judge Keough gets me in jail as people have promised via threats I may not get out this time," said Coleman. "I therefore knew what to expect when corrupt visiting judge Guatalo Nunez of Lorain, Oh. was sent down on me to replace runaway Lyndhurst Municipal Court Judge Mary Kaye Bozza relative to a bogus criminal case against me that was dismissed in February 2009. I was threatened on behalf of certain judges when jailed in the county in 2008 by Nunez without any authority and released without charges after, of course, being held naked and given a knockout drug, where I had followed the case of disbarred and now imprisoned lawyer Elsebeth Baumgartner. The Lyndhurst case is the impetus for the malicious prosecution by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Law Director Robert Triozzi in Cleveland relative to the resisting arrest verdict before Keough where they had me attacked and arrested after leaving a civil hearing at the Justice Center in August 2008 with the help of Cuyahoga County Judges Timothy McGinty and John O'Donnell, though both had no criminal jurisdiction and were presiding over civil cases involving my mortgage company of Chase Manhattan Mortgage and the malicious prosecution issue where Shaker Heights, Oh. officials had me prosecuted to no avail for writing about alleged housing discrimination in the Call and Post."
The journalist said that she will be relieved when Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer retires this year and that Keough is taking her orders from a powerful group of people, an explanation, she says, for the judge's non stop harassment and blatant disregard for the law.
According to Coleman, Moyer is angry because she did Call and Post articles in 2008 that exposed the way he sends judges throughout the state to different locations rather than assigning sitting judges in the community that are accountable to voters, and because she filed a non monetary lawsuit after he assigned Nunez to replace Bozza relative to the subsequently dismissed criminal charge against her that was pending in Lyndhurst.
"There is a reason that Judge Keough can get away with doing as she pleases in violation of the law and I feel like a character in the motion picture movie titled 'The Pelican Brief," said Coleman.
Coleman said tat she hopes that Turner is prosecuted by Mason for the alleged tampering with public records regarding continual alleged illegalities with the case docket before Keough and before other judges in other cases, a felony offense.
In her case she says that Turner has falsified the dates of filings on Keough's case docket in hopes of hurting an appeal and that he fixed the case docket to illegally reflect numerous arrests when she has yet to be arrested in the matter before Keough.
According to Coleman, Keough's case docket also denotes numerous false charges of aggravated disorderly conduct that do not exist since she was exonerated last May of that charge, in what the journalist says is an attempt to defame her via a public online case docket because the judge is allegedly angry because all she could pull off relative to the trial last May that was before her and involved other bogus misdemeanor charges against the long time journalist was a simple resisting arrest verdict."
"She's holding on to that resisting arrest verdict for dear life and could have simply issued a fine after trial last May, even though the verdict is illegal, said Coleman " Instead, this seemingly corrupt judge set sentencing some seven weeks later, though it was rescheduled to last September, and began harassing me with telephone calls from her subordinates and harassing rulings geared to try to destroy me. I believe that she is just as potentially unstable as my attorney Wayne Kerek says she is , and he does not appear much removed from such an assessment himself where his slickness has come to haunt him."
According to Coleman, the Plain Dealer and Call and Post newspapers, and Nineteen Action News, have copies of the corrupted case docket before Judge Keough that Coleman says she just recently sent and the community activist says that other data has been reviewed by one of her former attorneys as to the judicial corruption and other corruption.
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