Black Journalist To Sue Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B Turner For Alleged Retaliation For Her Pending Lawsuit Againt Judge Keough
Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner 
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough
From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the
Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner could be sued next week by African-American journalist Kathy Wray Coleman for alleged tampering with public records and defamation where he has again falsely put on the Cleveland Municipal Court website that Coleman has been convicted of or is currently charged with aggravated disorderly conduct when no such conviction or charge exist. Coleman, who has no criminal record, says the activity is in retaliation for a lawsuit filed last month in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas that is before Cuyahoga Judge John Russo and names Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough as one of several defendants.
"Earle B. Turner is in my opinion a lazy and corrupt Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court who routinely has his employees falsify case dockets to hurt Blacks," said Coleman. "How this sell out Black politician continues to operate without either criminal charges brought by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason or an extensive investigation by the FBI puzzles me."
Coleman says that Turner is acting under the direction of Keough whom Coleman's attorney, Wayne Kerek, sued along with others on her behalf alleging malicious prosecution, abuse of process, intentional infliction of emotional distress and other claims. The suit followed what Coleman claims was a malicious prosecution by the City of Cleveland and others that culminated in a trial last May before Keough where she was found guilty of resisting arrest but exonerated by a jury of the more serious charges of aggravated disorderly conduct, making false alarms and obstruction of official business regarding an arrest at the county Justice Center on Aug. 7, 2008. Coleman alleges that the arrest was due to her community activism and 38 articles on race issues that were written by the 16-year journalist and published in 2008 by the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper, a weekly that targets Cleveland's Black community.
Kerek says that his client is being targeted because she is a Black journalist and that she was denied constitutional guarantees in the two day trial before Keough that brought the resisting arrest verdict. The seasoned and outspoken journalist has yet to be sentenced and by virtue of the Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure a jury verdict of a criminal charge does not become either a conviction or a criminal record until sentencing and other required measures take place by the affiliated judge.
Keough, says Kerek, promoted the illegal resisting arrest verdict with illegal jury instructions even though sole arresting White male peace officer Gerald Pace did not even accuse Coleman of resisting his arrest or testify at trial. When Kerek, whom Coleman hired after Keough dismissed trial attorney Carole A. Lohr for impropriety, filed a motion two weeks ago asking Keough for a hearing to seek dismissal of the illegal resisting arrest verdict, Keough said that she would ignore it and then allegedly directed Turner to falsify the case docket to defame Coleman by illegally denoting a conviction on the aggravated disorderly conduct charge, a charge that a jury last May found her not guilty of. The Ohio Rules of Superintendence require that Ohio judges rule on motions within 120 days of the filing and do not permit judges like Keough to simply ignore a motion to harass a Black person that she has it in for. The remedy for that type of illegal action is the filing of a writ of mandamus in the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals that seeks judicial compliance by the trial court with the applicable authority at issue, which Coleman says Kerek intends to file against Keough.
"Judge Keough is, in my opinion, an ambitious and corrupt judge and she has no respect for either the law or Black women, whom she apparently resents," said Coleman. "I pray that the FBI will continue any investigation of her and that she is prosecuted and jailed for her continual disregard of the law and her clear harassment of Blacks and women in violation of statutory and constitutional guarantees. She apparently believes that Blacks are still slaves and that the law does not apply to us."
In the lawsuit filed last month on Coleman's behalf, where Keough is a defendant along with others, Kerek outlines all of Keough's alleged illegalities at trial last May including alleged jury tampering where she is accused of enlisting a Cleveland Clinic juror who became jury Foreman to illegally ask unwritten questions in the middle of trial that mediocre Cleveland assistant prosecutors Lorraine Coyne and Joan Bascone failed to ask of one of the city's witnesses. They too have been sued by Coleman and the suit alleges, among other charges, that the tainted jury Foreman urged other jurors to follow Keough's illegal jury instructions where she allowed somebody to testify for Pace in violation of the Ohio Rules of Evidence and urged the jury to violate Coleman's constitutional right to confront him, though Pace would not lie and testify, and he supported Coleman, who took the stand and denied all charges at trial last May.
Also sued, among others, was the City of Cleveland, Lohr and Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi, who usurped the role of Chief Prosecutor Victor Perez to bring the charges against Coleman to allegedly get at the journalist and particular Call and Post officials. He then allegedly promised Keough an endorsement from the Cleveland Plain Dealer and a ranking city official relative to her current run for an open seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals.
Coleman said also that she will file a bar complaint against Keough for violating state law and issuing harassing orders against her while an affidavit of prejudice was pending before then Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge Nancy McDonnell, whom Coleman says protected Keough because she too is allegedly a corrupt White Democrat that will not be fair where certain Blacks and media types are concerned.
"If Clerk Turner fails to immediately correct the case docket before Judge Keough that he allegedly directed his employees to falsify for defamation purposes in retaliation for our lawsuit against Judge Keough and others the suit will be amended next week to include Clerk Turner and his applicable assistants," said Coleman "This fight transcends me and is a fight for fair play in the county and municipal courts for all criminal defendants, a disproportionate number of whom are Black and poor."
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough
From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the
Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner could be sued next week by African-American journalist Kathy Wray Coleman for alleged tampering with public records and defamation where he has again falsely put on the Cleveland Municipal Court website that Coleman has been convicted of or is currently charged with aggravated disorderly conduct when no such conviction or charge exist. Coleman, who has no criminal record, says the activity is in retaliation for a lawsuit filed last month in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas that is before Cuyahoga Judge John Russo and names Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough as one of several defendants.
"Earle B. Turner is in my opinion a lazy and corrupt Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court who routinely has his employees falsify case dockets to hurt Blacks," said Coleman. "How this sell out Black politician continues to operate without either criminal charges brought by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason or an extensive investigation by the FBI puzzles me."
Coleman says that Turner is acting under the direction of Keough whom Coleman's attorney, Wayne Kerek, sued along with others on her behalf alleging malicious prosecution, abuse of process, intentional infliction of emotional distress and other claims. The suit followed what Coleman claims was a malicious prosecution by the City of Cleveland and others that culminated in a trial last May before Keough where she was found guilty of resisting arrest but exonerated by a jury of the more serious charges of aggravated disorderly conduct, making false alarms and obstruction of official business regarding an arrest at the county Justice Center on Aug. 7, 2008. Coleman alleges that the arrest was due to her community activism and 38 articles on race issues that were written by the 16-year journalist and published in 2008 by the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper, a weekly that targets Cleveland's Black community.
Kerek says that his client is being targeted because she is a Black journalist and that she was denied constitutional guarantees in the two day trial before Keough that brought the resisting arrest verdict. The seasoned and outspoken journalist has yet to be sentenced and by virtue of the Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure a jury verdict of a criminal charge does not become either a conviction or a criminal record until sentencing and other required measures take place by the affiliated judge.
Keough, says Kerek, promoted the illegal resisting arrest verdict with illegal jury instructions even though sole arresting White male peace officer Gerald Pace did not even accuse Coleman of resisting his arrest or testify at trial. When Kerek, whom Coleman hired after Keough dismissed trial attorney Carole A. Lohr for impropriety, filed a motion two weeks ago asking Keough for a hearing to seek dismissal of the illegal resisting arrest verdict, Keough said that she would ignore it and then allegedly directed Turner to falsify the case docket to defame Coleman by illegally denoting a conviction on the aggravated disorderly conduct charge, a charge that a jury last May found her not guilty of. The Ohio Rules of Superintendence require that Ohio judges rule on motions within 120 days of the filing and do not permit judges like Keough to simply ignore a motion to harass a Black person that she has it in for. The remedy for that type of illegal action is the filing of a writ of mandamus in the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals that seeks judicial compliance by the trial court with the applicable authority at issue, which Coleman says Kerek intends to file against Keough.
"Judge Keough is, in my opinion, an ambitious and corrupt judge and she has no respect for either the law or Black women, whom she apparently resents," said Coleman. "I pray that the FBI will continue any investigation of her and that she is prosecuted and jailed for her continual disregard of the law and her clear harassment of Blacks and women in violation of statutory and constitutional guarantees. She apparently believes that Blacks are still slaves and that the law does not apply to us."
In the lawsuit filed last month on Coleman's behalf, where Keough is a defendant along with others, Kerek outlines all of Keough's alleged illegalities at trial last May including alleged jury tampering where she is accused of enlisting a Cleveland Clinic juror who became jury Foreman to illegally ask unwritten questions in the middle of trial that mediocre Cleveland assistant prosecutors Lorraine Coyne and Joan Bascone failed to ask of one of the city's witnesses. They too have been sued by Coleman and the suit alleges, among other charges, that the tainted jury Foreman urged other jurors to follow Keough's illegal jury instructions where she allowed somebody to testify for Pace in violation of the Ohio Rules of Evidence and urged the jury to violate Coleman's constitutional right to confront him, though Pace would not lie and testify, and he supported Coleman, who took the stand and denied all charges at trial last May.
Also sued, among others, was the City of Cleveland, Lohr and Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi, who usurped the role of Chief Prosecutor Victor Perez to bring the charges against Coleman to allegedly get at the journalist and particular Call and Post officials. He then allegedly promised Keough an endorsement from the Cleveland Plain Dealer and a ranking city official relative to her current run for an open seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals.
Coleman said also that she will file a bar complaint against Keough for violating state law and issuing harassing orders against her while an affidavit of prejudice was pending before then Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge Nancy McDonnell, whom Coleman says protected Keough because she too is allegedly a corrupt White Democrat that will not be fair where certain Blacks and media types are concerned.
"If Clerk Turner fails to immediately correct the case docket before Judge Keough that he allegedly directed his employees to falsify for defamation purposes in retaliation for our lawsuit against Judge Keough and others the suit will be amended next week to include Clerk Turner and his applicable assistants," said Coleman "This fight transcends me and is a fight for fair play in the county and municipal courts for all criminal defendants, a disproportionate number of whom are Black and poor."
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