Cleveland Call And Post Newspaper Attacks Judge Keough In Editorial Accusing Her Of Harassing Blacks And Exceeding Her Judicial Authority
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough
Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper
General Counsel George Forbes
Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Steve Loomis
Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson
Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
The Call and Post Newspaper, the Black press that serves Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Oh., has attacked Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough in an editorial in this week's edition, which hit the stands Wed.
At issue is Keough's slap in the face to the newspaper and the client of Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post General Counsel George Forbes where the controversial judge ordered Jason Ruiz, 27, to apologize to Cleveland police officer Anthony Sauto, who is White. She did so even though prosecutors objected.
The apology followed criminal charges lodged against Ruiz for a dispute at a bar last summer in Cleveland's Warehouse District. Following that dispute the Cleveland NAACP held a press conference to denounce what it called racism in the Warehouse District against Blacks.
Keough said at a hearing before the apology that Forbes, the Cleveland NAACP, and the Black leaders that backed Forbes on the issue were always using the race card without credibility "and the rest of the world is going by us."
Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Steve Loomis, who said the press conference was politically motivated due to renegotiations of the police union's collective bargaining agreement with city hall administrators and otherwise, backed Sauto. He had urged Keough, who was endorsed by the police union as to her win in November for a seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals, to order the apology on behalf of Sauto and police.
"If the prosecutor had wanted an apology from Ruiz, then that should have fallen on him, not the judge, and certainly not the police department," the scathing Call and Post editorial reads in part. "Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough exceeded her authority. To be sure, this newspaper will keep a close eye on Judge Keough as she continues to preside over cases in the Cleveland Municipal Court."
(Note: Read the entire editorial in this week's edition of the Call and Post).
Sauto was moonlighting as a bouncer at the bar and arrested Ruiz, who said he and other Blacks were put out at closing unlike their White counterparts. Both blame the other for the incident and Ruiz, the Cleveland NAACP and Cleveland City Councilmen Jeff Johnson and Zack Reed said Blacks are often the alleged victims of racial harassment by bar owners and police in the popular entertainment district.
A surveillance video of the incident has been spliced to manipulate the public where in Keough's courtroom impropriety is routine. It includes the falsification of case docket data to hurt appeals of illegal convictions, falsification of trial transcripts, undue influence on jurors, illegal jury instructions, and secret backroom meetings with the judge and prosecutors and defense counsel during trials where defense counsel in one case actually came out and delivered closing arguments against her own client and on behalf of the prosecution.
The ambitious judge is also accused of illegally securing high profile cases involving Blacks and community activists and then violating the law in an effort to have them maliciously prosecuted for Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi, who usurps the role of Chief Prosecutor Victor Perez to bring the criminal charges against targeted Blacks and others on behalf of the predominantly Black City of Cleveland.
A former Cleveland Municipal Court judge himself, and Keough's lawyer when she is sued for harassing Blacks and women, Triozzi was appointed to his position by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, as was Perez and the saftey director, chief of police, and EMS commissioner, none of whom are Black.
Her criticism of Forbes, some say, was her way of distancing herself from Forbes, Jackson, the Call and Post and the Black community after using them to help her win the appellate seat that she won relative to last month's election. She won the May Democratic primary by less that 3200 votes against Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ron Suster, whom the Call and Post endorsed for the primary election, though it endorsed Keough in the general election.
In conjunction with the apology Ruiz accepted six months probation without trial or judgment by a judge or what would have been a jury and if successful, the misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and criminal trespass will be dismissed.
Keough's six year term on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals commences Jan 3.
Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper
General Counsel George Forbes
Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Steve Loomis
Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson
Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
The Call and Post Newspaper, the Black press that serves Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Oh., has attacked Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough in an editorial in this week's edition, which hit the stands Wed.
At issue is Keough's slap in the face to the newspaper and the client of Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post General Counsel George Forbes where the controversial judge ordered Jason Ruiz, 27, to apologize to Cleveland police officer Anthony Sauto, who is White. She did so even though prosecutors objected.
The apology followed criminal charges lodged against Ruiz for a dispute at a bar last summer in Cleveland's Warehouse District. Following that dispute the Cleveland NAACP held a press conference to denounce what it called racism in the Warehouse District against Blacks.
Keough said at a hearing before the apology that Forbes, the Cleveland NAACP, and the Black leaders that backed Forbes on the issue were always using the race card without credibility "and the rest of the world is going by us."
Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Steve Loomis, who said the press conference was politically motivated due to renegotiations of the police union's collective bargaining agreement with city hall administrators and otherwise, backed Sauto. He had urged Keough, who was endorsed by the police union as to her win in November for a seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals, to order the apology on behalf of Sauto and police.
"If the prosecutor had wanted an apology from Ruiz, then that should have fallen on him, not the judge, and certainly not the police department," the scathing Call and Post editorial reads in part. "Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough exceeded her authority. To be sure, this newspaper will keep a close eye on Judge Keough as she continues to preside over cases in the Cleveland Municipal Court."
(Note: Read the entire editorial in this week's edition of the Call and Post).
Sauto was moonlighting as a bouncer at the bar and arrested Ruiz, who said he and other Blacks were put out at closing unlike their White counterparts. Both blame the other for the incident and Ruiz, the Cleveland NAACP and Cleveland City Councilmen Jeff Johnson and Zack Reed said Blacks are often the alleged victims of racial harassment by bar owners and police in the popular entertainment district.
A surveillance video of the incident has been spliced to manipulate the public where in Keough's courtroom impropriety is routine. It includes the falsification of case docket data to hurt appeals of illegal convictions, falsification of trial transcripts, undue influence on jurors, illegal jury instructions, and secret backroom meetings with the judge and prosecutors and defense counsel during trials where defense counsel in one case actually came out and delivered closing arguments against her own client and on behalf of the prosecution.
The ambitious judge is also accused of illegally securing high profile cases involving Blacks and community activists and then violating the law in an effort to have them maliciously prosecuted for Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi, who usurps the role of Chief Prosecutor Victor Perez to bring the criminal charges against targeted Blacks and others on behalf of the predominantly Black City of Cleveland.
A former Cleveland Municipal Court judge himself, and Keough's lawyer when she is sued for harassing Blacks and women, Triozzi was appointed to his position by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, as was Perez and the saftey director, chief of police, and EMS commissioner, none of whom are Black.
Her criticism of Forbes, some say, was her way of distancing herself from Forbes, Jackson, the Call and Post and the Black community after using them to help her win the appellate seat that she won relative to last month's election. She won the May Democratic primary by less that 3200 votes against Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ron Suster, whom the Call and Post endorsed for the primary election, though it endorsed Keough in the general election.
In conjunction with the apology Ruiz accepted six months probation without trial or judgment by a judge or what would have been a jury and if successful, the misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and criminal trespass will be dismissed.
Keough's six year term on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals commences Jan 3.
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