Clerk of Court Earle Turner Corrects Defamatory Case Docket Entry Angering Judge Keough Relative To Her Harassment of A Black Journalist
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 has corrected a false and defamatory notation on the website case docket of Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough that says that African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman was convicted of aggravated disorderly conduct, though Coleman has no criminal record and has never been convicted of a crime. Coleman said that the illegal notation, which she views as felony activity of tampering with a public record, was removed by Turner's Chief of Staff, Ron Tabor, on Friday, after Coleman said she would sue and contact the press. Keough is allegedly angry over the correction where she has written an entry on the case docket that falsified data as to the filings of documents on Coleman's behalf should not be corrected, an action that Coleman says the FBI should investigate as well as other activities in that court by Keough.
"Turner, Tabor, Judge Keough and the whole group should be indicted in my opinion for the ongoing tampering with public records designed to hurt Blacks and others on appeal relative to criminal cases in that Court," said Coleman. "And Tabor and Turner still refuse to change the date of a document falsely denoted as being filed on May 26, 2009 to the correct date of May 22, 2009 because that seemingly corrupt and potentially racist Judge Keough is behind it also."
Coleman said also that the reason Keough and Turner can get away with obvious corruption is because Black leaders and Black organizations in the community will not stand up as to ongoing malfeasance and racism in the municipal and county courts that are detrimental to the Black community.
According to Coleman, Turner is acting under the direction of Keough whom Coleman's post trial attorney, Wayne Kerek, sued last month 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 in part 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. She says that a certain city official targeted her in part to get at Call and Post Publisher Don King and Legal Counsel George Forbes for allegedly endorsing Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell in 2005 over Frank Jackson, who ousted Campbell for mayor and won a second four-year term last year.
"I have found as a Cleveland area Black journalist that some people do hold grudges," said Coleman. "And often times money and staying in good with corrupt Black politicians are more important to some people than standing tall for the Black community and for people that speak out on issues of public concern through articles or otherwise."
Coleman is now editor of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network and the DeterminerWeekly.Com, online news magazines that address national politics and news from the Cleveland area from a Black perspective.
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.
"Correcting the defamation data that lies and says I was convicted of aggravated disorderly conduct is not enough, " said Coleman. "If Clerk Turner fails to correct the case docket this week to show the actual date of May 22, 2009 as to the filing of a document necessary for an appeal from the illegal filing date of May 26, 2009 that Judge Keough directed him to fraudulently denote on the case docket, the lawsuit shall be amended to include Turner, Tabor and any other culprits."
Coleman said that Kerek has asked that she not sue Tabor because Tabor is allegedly "a nice guy," and because he will meet with Tabor this week to again ask that he and Turner stop tampering with public records and record the correct date of the filings, including the May 22, 2009 document, regardless of Judge Keough's ongoing harassment of the Black journalist. Previous meetings with Kerek and Tabor around the May 22, 2009 document have been unsuccessful, the journalist said.
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 has corrected a false and defamatory notation on the website case docket of Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough that says that African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman was convicted of aggravated disorderly conduct, though Coleman has no criminal record and has never been convicted of a crime. Coleman said that the illegal notation, which she views as felony activity of tampering with a public record, was removed by Turner's Chief of Staff, Ron Tabor, on Friday, after Coleman said she would sue and contact the press. Keough is allegedly angry over the correction where she has written an entry on the case docket that falsified data as to the filings of documents on Coleman's behalf should not be corrected, an action that Coleman says the FBI should investigate as well as other activities in that court by Keough.
"Turner, Tabor, Judge Keough and the whole group should be indicted in my opinion for the ongoing tampering with public records designed to hurt Blacks and others on appeal relative to criminal cases in that Court," said Coleman. "And Tabor and Turner still refuse to change the date of a document falsely denoted as being filed on May 26, 2009 to the correct date of May 22, 2009 because that seemingly corrupt and potentially racist Judge Keough is behind it also."
Coleman said also that the reason Keough and Turner can get away with obvious corruption is because Black leaders and Black organizations in the community will not stand up as to ongoing malfeasance and racism in the municipal and county courts that are detrimental to the Black community.
According to Coleman, Turner is acting under the direction of Keough whom Coleman's post trial attorney, Wayne Kerek, sued last month 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 in part 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. She says that a certain city official targeted her in part to get at Call and Post Publisher Don King and Legal Counsel George Forbes for allegedly endorsing Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell in 2005 over Frank Jackson, who ousted Campbell for mayor and won a second four-year term last year.
"I have found as a Cleveland area Black journalist that some people do hold grudges," said Coleman. "And often times money and staying in good with corrupt Black politicians are more important to some people than standing tall for the Black community and for people that speak out on issues of public concern through articles or otherwise."
Coleman is now editor of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network and the DeterminerWeekly.Com, online news magazines that address national politics and news from the Cleveland area from a Black perspective.
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.
"Correcting the defamation data that lies and says I was convicted of aggravated disorderly conduct is not enough, " said Coleman. "If Clerk Turner fails to correct the case docket this week to show the actual date of May 22, 2009 as to the filing of a document necessary for an appeal from the illegal filing date of May 26, 2009 that Judge Keough directed him to fraudulently denote on the case docket, the lawsuit shall be amended to include Turner, Tabor and any other culprits."
Coleman said that Kerek has asked that she not sue Tabor because Tabor is allegedly "a nice guy," and because he will meet with Tabor this week to again ask that he and Turner stop tampering with public records and record the correct date of the filings, including the May 22, 2009 document, regardless of Judge Keough's ongoing harassment of the Black journalist. Previous meetings with Kerek and Tabor around the May 22, 2009 document have been unsuccessful, the journalist said.
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