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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinnewsblog.com) Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judges John O'Donnell and Timothy McGinty, and Foreclosure Chief Magistrate Stephen Bucha are accused of threatening an attorney with criminal sanctions if he did not file documents in foreclosure cases involving Blacks as a suspended attorney so that O'Donnell could then strike them from the record to help non-existent mortgage companies foreclose on homes when they do not own the mortgage note, and McGinty allegedly had him file notices of appeal in an effort to stop his dismissal of cases from being overturned by the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. McGinty allegedly hopes the appeal would be dismissed becau...

Democratic Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Imperial Women and other activist groups have canceled the caravan from Cleveland to Berea Municipal Court in Berea, Oh. on Thursday, May 5, to protest before a previously scheduled trial of journalist, community activist and Imperial Women leader Kathy Wray Coleman, whom they say is being harassed and maliciously prosecuted around her writings, the Imperial Ave. Murders, and the activists' push for a state law requiring that all Ohio trial court judges are assigned and reassigned to civil, criminal and other cases by random draw. The malicious prosecution trial was canceled after it was learned of the protest and because Berea Municipal Court Visiting Judge Grace Trimboli is impersonating a judge and disregarding basic constitutional guarantees.Trimboli, 57, who is neither a retired nor cu...

Ohio State Rep Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), with lobbying by grassroots groups including The Imperial Women, yesterday introduced a bill that requires Ohio trial court judges in a multi-judge system such as Cleveland Municipal Court and the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas with more than one judge to be assigned to cases by random draw. House Bill 216 would also require that when a new judge is appointed or elected to those courts the cases of the judge that he or she replaced must be distributed equitably among the remaining judges by the administrative judge of that court, and also by random draw, a process where the selection is at random via computer or otherwise, and not via a handpicking process. "Cases in a multi-judge municipal or county court or a multi-judge general, domestic relations, or juvenile divis...

Democratic Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor Former Democratic Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown, now a Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Journalist and Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman Democratic Cuyahoga County Administrative and Presiding Judge Nancy Fuerst Democratic Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes Democratic Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Democratic Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Judge John F. Russo From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Imperial Women and other activist groups will take a caravan from Cleveland to Berea Municipal Court in Berea , Oh. on Thursday to protest before a scheduled trial of journalist, community activist and Imperial Women leader Kathy Wray Coleman, whom they say is bei...

Cleveland Community Relations Director Blaine Griffin From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com ( http://www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com/ ) Cleveland Community Relations Director Blaine Griffin, along with other members of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's administrative leadership team, including Yvonne Pointer and law enforcement personnel, will meet with members of the Imperial Women Coalition to address their concerns, including issues as to the Imperial Ave. Murders and the mistreatment of Blacks and women by police, the courts and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. “The meeting is confirmed,” said Griffin, who set it for Mon., May 2 at 6:00 pm at his office at Cleveland City Hall, 601 Lakeside Ave (Note: Sign in at desk and be directed to the location. And for further information contact Imperial Women affiliates Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-3114 or Roz McAllister at 216-577-0466). “We are pleased that ...

Rebecca Whitby, 25, and her now 6 month-old daughter Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com(www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul has released Rebecca Whitby from prison on shock probation just 48 days into a six months prison sentence that was enacted per the requests of White male Cleveland Fifth District police officers that White neighbors said beat her unnecessarily and called her nigger. She still, however, remains on probation but can now tend to her little girl, whom her mother took care of while she was away. Gaul sentenced Whitby March 8 after a nearly week long trial that ended Feb. 7. "She is blessed and God has prevailed over evil," said Marva Patterson, Whitby's aunt and a community activist along with her husband David Patterson, who also fought tooth and nail for the release of the 25-ye...

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell has replaced county foreclosure Chief Magistrate Stephen Bucha on cases involving the no longer existing Chase Mortgage Company with subordinate magistrate Tom Vozar following the initiation of a mortgage fraud investigation two weeks ago by county prosecutor Bill Mason, though O'Donnell has not recused himself from the cases since he supervises Bucha and allegedly directed him on the alleged illegal activity. Magistrates are manually assigned to foreclosure cases by the 34 judges of the general division of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, which is led by Chief Judge Nancy Fuerst, but are under the supervision of the judges, who ...

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinnewsblog.com) Chase Home Finance Company is under investigation by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason's office for potential mortgage fraud against Black homeowners of Cuyahoga County. At issue is the attempt by attorneys for Chase Mortgage Company, which no longer exists , foreclosing on homes of Black people when their current mortgage company is Chase Home Finance, though they are require that all foreclosure complaints initiated before 2005 by Chase Mortgage Company must be dismissed and refiled by Chase Homes Finance, the new company, and upon refiling the mortgage company cannot ask for legal fees. This holds true for any other foreclosures where during the litigation the mortgage company changes hands.And data ...

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11) From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge(D-11), whose district includes parts of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs, said she supports a push by the Imperial Women for an investigation by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson as to the release of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell from police custody on an attempted rape complaint where six of 11 women murdered on Imperial Ave in Cleveland were murdered thereafter. "I support it said Fudge," in a meeting with about 25 members of the grassroots organization founded in 2009 around the tragedy where the remains of the 11 women were discovered at the Imperial Ave. home of Sowell, who is in custody and awaiting trial for June 6 on numerous counts of kidnapping, rape, aggravated murder and abuse of a corpse. "All I can do is ask Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackso...

Ohio State Rep Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Rep. John E. Barnes Jr. (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Sen. Charleta Tavares (D-Columbus) Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Sen. Shirley Smith (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Sen. Capri Cafaro (D-Youngstown) Ohio State Sen. Tim Schaffer (R-Lancaster) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  (Editors Note: Since this article's debut in April 2011, the Ohio state legislature has passed Senate Bill 17, dubbed the "Wild Wild West Bill", with Gov. John Kasich then signing it into law. It was amended though and permits guns in Ohio restaurants but not in sports stadiums throughout the state) COLUMBUS, Ohio-A bill that passed the Republican led Ohio Senate on Wednesday 24-7 and would allow Ohioans to carry holstered guns for possible shoot outs in area bars and sports stadiums is commensurate to the "Wild Wild West" da...