Black Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason pleads guilty to felonious assault and domestic violence for beating his wife, there is no such thing as attempted felonious assault under Ohio law....Mason did not get the break that White former Bedford judge Harry Jacob got for pimping women, running a prostitution ring, and manipulating court records....Jacob was spared felony convictions per a bench trial before Common Pleas Judge Brian Corrigan.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor Kathy Wray Coleman
Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge Lance Mason, and his estranged wife Aisha Mason By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Lance Mason, the only Black male judge of 34 judges on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas bench, who faced felony and other charges relative to a domestic dispute with his estranged wife in last year in Shaker Heights where he lives, pleaded guilty to one count of domestic violence and one count of felonious assault on Aug 13. He will be sentenced next month. Shaker Height