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Democrats Jennifer Brunner and John O'Donnell to run for separate Ohio Supreme Court seats in 2020, O'Donnell still under fire for acquitting ex-Cleveland cop Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges after he gunned down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets, the judge losing a 2016 bid for the state's high court by less than one percent after Black Cleveland elected officials, led by Councilman Kevin Conwell, rallied voters against him regarding the Brelo verdict, which followed a bench trial....O'Donnell is also under fire for stealing homes from county residents for JPMorgan Chase Bank via illegal foreclosures....Justice Melody Stewart is the sole Black on the Ohio Supreme Court, and the first Black and first Black female elected to that court, which is led by Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, the court's first female chief justice....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals Judge Jennifer Brunner, also a former Ohio secretary of state, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, and Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, Brunner and O'Donnell seeking election in 2020 as Democrats to two seats on the seven-member Ohio Supreme Court, currently of which is majority Republican, and has one Black justice, Democratic Justice Melody Stewart  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief  at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.   Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S

Judge John O'Donnell loses Ohio Supreme Court race: Article: It's official. Brelo judge John O'Donnell, who acquitted since fired White Cleveland cop Michael Brelo of gunning down two unarmed Blacks, loses Ohio Supreme Court race to Republican state appeals court judge Pat Fischer.... Common Pleas Judge O'Donnell also stole homes from Cuyahoga County residents, via illegal foreclosures, for JPMorgan Chase Bank, others, public records reveal....Those that complained were maliciously prosecuted by corrupt city prosecutors and municipal judges in the county, visiting judges, and racist and corrupt outgoing county prosecutor Tim McGinty, who lost reelection this year to Michael O'Malley.....Blacks on the all Democratic Cleveland City Council, led by Councilman Kevin Conwell, denied O'Donnell an endorsement....By editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Republican Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals Judge Pat Fischer (left) defeats Democratic Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell for an open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court in a close race determined some two weeks after the Nov. 8 general election. O'Donnell came under fire from the Black community for bragging about acquitting a White Cleveland cop  that gunned down two unarmed Blacks in November 2012  via a bench trial in May 2015 . Black members of Cleveland City Council, led by Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell,  and community activists rallied against O'Donnell, who lost the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper endorsement to Fischer Outgoing Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who lost reelection this year in the Democratic primary to Michael O'Malley, who had no opponent in the general election and takes office in January 2017. Democratic Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, who led successful efforts to oust Cuyahoga Count