Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed convicted by Cleveland jury of DUI, talks to Cleveland Urban News.Com about conviction, state Rep Bill Patmon says Reed needs treatment not jail, that he supports Reed's candidacy for reelection, and that the judge that heard the case should have come from Cuyahoga County, retired, visiting, White male judge Larry Allen of Willougby, Ohio in Lake County was handpicked and assigned by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, community activists again call for Ohio state legislature to adopt House Bill 216, sponsored by Patmon, a bill that calls for random draw assignments and reassignments of Ohio trial court judges to cases
Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed was convicted of DUI this afternoon by an eight-member majority White Cleveland Municipal Court jury before retired, visiting former Willoughby, Oh. judge Larry Allen, whom Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor personally handpicked out of Lake County to hear the case after the original judge, Cleveland Judge Pinkey Carr, refused it. Carr, who is a Black Democrat like Reed and was an assistant county prosecutor and a lead attorney for the prosecution in the 2011 capital murder trial of since convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, said that Reed had cont