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Staff article-Investigative article Part 4 CLICK HERE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLE PART 1 CLICK HERE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLE PART 2 CLICK HERE TO READ INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLE PART 3 CLEVELAND, Ohio-    Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutors under County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley are asking common pleas judges to let police officer witnesses in illegal prosecutions against Blacks skip trial and testify remotely at trials via Skype, which violates the right to confrontation of defendants' accusers under the Ohio Rules of Evidence and the U.S Constitution, sources say. The demeanor of a corrupt cop in person at trial who seeks to imprison Black defendants is consequential to an adequate defense, say activists and defense attorneys, given that a large number of them hate Black people, some of whom they have gunned them down with impunity. Activists say the entire scenario raises serious questions about the propriety of trial proceedings and that they do not trust remote testimony, give...

Former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty,  who lost reelection in 2016 and is on a mission to get Blacks who did not support him for reelection  illegally indicted and maliciously prosecuted with the help of corrupt White grand jury foremen, unethical White common pleas,  municipal area judges, and other culprits. Staff article-Investigative article Part 3 CLICK HERE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLE PART 1 CLICK HERE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLE PART 2 CLEVELAND, Ohio-   Former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor  Tim McGinty, now a visiting judge for the 34- member, largely White common pleas general division court, used White, male grand jury foremen to help him get Blacks indicted who would not support him for reelection and then used them to fix indictments he disagreed with for political and other reasons. This is according to public records and a longitudinal investigation of county racism and public corruption by Ohio's most read Black digital news media ( Clevela...

  Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article Latest RISE Effort By Mayor Bibb Will Increase the Maximum Age from 40 to 55 to Help Address Staffing Shortage   CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb is proposing an amendment to a city ordinance that will raise the maximum age for police cadets to be appointed to the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) to 55 years old.  The proposal, if passed, would amend  an ordinance passed in September 2012  that capped the age at 40.   The  proposed amendment is part of the mayor's RISE initiative and must be cleared by city council to become effective. RISE (Rasing investment and safety for anyone) was created by the mayor to address public safety, heightened city crime in the majority Black major American city, and police issues. The city has a shortage of police officers, and that too is one of the mayor's concerns. "Solving multi...

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley and Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst Staff article-Investigative article Part 2 CLEVELAND, Ohio-    Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley, who is up for reelection, says Black defendants facing serious charges have a right to indigent counsel, a direct contradiction to action taken by Common Pleas Judge Nancy A. Fuerst, a former administrative and presiding judge of the 34-member, largely White general division common pleas bench in the county who's judicial colleagues tired of and replaced as chief judge, and once an unsuccessful candidate for a state supreme court justice seat. "Everybody who is indigent should be afforded counsel," said O'Malley through his press spokesperson in a phone message. But activists say "actions speak louder than words" and want O'Malley to order his assistant county prosecutors to challenge Fuerst and other common pleas judges harassing Blacks, w...