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Activist Devin Branch found not guilty of assaulting former East Cleveland mayor Gary Norton as Branch, who led the successful recall election against Norton last year, says the prosecution was malicious and politically motivated....By www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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East Cleveland community activist Devin Branch (left) and former East Cleveland mayor Gary Norton ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com  Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-  East Cleveland community activist Devin Branch, who led the successful recall election last year of former East Cleveland mayor Gary Norton, and who briefly served on city council after Norton's ouster, was found not guilty on Friday of an alleged misdemeanor assault on the former mayor. The jury deliberated for less than a half hour before returning an acquittal verdict on what Branch called a malicious prosecution that he says was "politically motivated."  Norton summoned police last year on the day of the recall election, claiming Branch assaulted him, Branch saying he only knocked a clipboard