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Black Journalist To File Prejudice Affidavit Against Judge McGinty In Ohio Supreme Court

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeeklyCom and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman says that she will file an affidavit of prejudice next week against Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty with Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown for review and subsequent determination on whether McGinty has the judicial temperament to be fair with respect to a lawsuit before him where she is the plaintiff. State law gives the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court sole authority to decide affidavits of prejudice filed against Ohio Court of Common Pleas judges. They hear felony criminal cases, lawsuits where damages in excess of $15 thousand are sought, and other legal matters. If Coleman's prejudice affidavit is granted, McGinty will be replaced in the case with another judge. Coleman said that a change of venue to a common pleas court

Mason Fights McKoy Drug Case In Ohio Supreme Court Seeking To Withhold Name Of Alleged Informant Not Produced In Dismissed Case Of Other Defendant

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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Community Activist Art McKoy By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Though community activist Art McKoy, 66, is still struggling to clear himself and his name of a fifth degree felony charge that accuses him of permitting the sale of cocaine and other drugs in his now defunct Superfly Barbershop in East Cleveland, the cases of the two barbers accused of dealing the alleged drugs are long over. All three were indicted in December of 2008 by a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury following a police raid at the barbershop. McKoy, himself, is not accused of dealing any drugs and has pleaded not guilty to the charge. The potential trial in his case is on hold pending the outcome of appeals relative to an outright fight between prosecutors and McKoy's attorneys on whether the name of the alleged confidential informant for the prosecution should be produced either before or during

Judge Sutula Replaces Judge Friedman In Case Of Black Student Allegedly Beaten And Called "Nigger" By White Police Accusing Her Of Assault

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College Student Rebecca Whitby Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kathleen Sutula Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Stuart Friedman By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network After vowing on record last week that he is not a racist, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Stuart Friedman stopped jury selection and recused himself from a controversial criminal case where a Black female Cuyahoga Community College student is on trial charged with assaulting two White male Cleveland police officers. The officers have been tagged by an elderly White neighbor, scheduled to testify for the defense at trial, as unnecessarily tasing and beating the girl, and calling her a "nigger" via an arrest last year at her parents then home in Cleveland's racially mixed Collinwood neighborhood where tensions with the majority White Fifth District police traditionally run high. Among other charg

Judge Ambrose Issues Partial Gag Order In Anthony Sowell Capital Murder Case

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold Suspected Serial Killer of 11 Black Women Anthony Sowell By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network A partial gag order has been issued in the Anthony Sowell capital murder case by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose who last month replaced Cuyahoga Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold after then Acting Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Pfeifer removed her from the case due allegedly to negative publicity. By striking contrast, Strickland Saffold is a Black Democrat, and Ambrose, a moderate White Republican. Sowell is in custody and charged with several counts of aggravated murder and other criminal infractions after the remains of 11 Black women were found in an around his Imperial Ave. home in Cleveland's predominantly Black Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Six o

Activist Caleb Maupin, Students' Mother Speak Out About Student Arrests While Councilman Polensek Says Cleveland School Closings Are Premature

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Cleveland Ward 11 Councilman Michael Polensek College Student and Community Activist Caleb Maupin Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Schools CEO Dr. Eugene Sanders By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network A video of what members of the Black and grassroots communities are calling a brutal arrest by Cleveland police of two Black female Cleveland schools students engaged last week in a student protest over teacher layoffs and school closings has gotten over 9,000 hits under the title "Cleveland Police Brutalize Student Protesters" on the popular YouTube Website, a venue where ordinary people and the rich and famous upload videos, movies and other media paraphernalia for Internet viewers. And the fight continues as grassroots leaders schedule a meeting this evening at 6 pm at the Collinwood Public Library in Cleveland in preparation of demanding that the criminal charges brought against the girls

U. S. Rep. Marcia Fudge Issues Press Release In Support Of Those Impacted By Cleveland Ward 1 House Explosion

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Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11), who represents parts of the City of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs, sent a press release in support of those impacted by the explosion yesterday of a house near the intersection of East 177th St. and Federal Drive in Cleveland's predominantly Black Ward 1 neighborhood. Ward 1 is Cleveland's strongest Black neighborhood with its segment of staunch middle class residents and a thick senior citizens venue that sleeps on nothing and will hold area politicians accountable. Though no people died including those living in the house that exploded, four nearby homes were destroyed, a dog died, and 11 people suffered what has been reported as minor injuries. No ruling on the explosion has been made and it is under investigation for possible arson. If anyone has information on this issue they should contact

Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold Harassed By Plain Dealer With Help From Mayor Jackson Who Illegally Issues License And Registration Holds

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network A Cleveland Plain Dealer article published yesterday details delinquent parking and camera ticket fines issued by the City of Cleveland and allegedly owed by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, who some Blacks say is being harassed by the newspaper in retaliation for a $50 million lawsuit alleging privacy violations that she filed last month against the newspaper, its editor Susan Goldberg, and a host of other newspaper affiliates. The biased article says the judge owes a total of $1 thousand in combined parking and camera infraction tickets and that her car can be towed. It goes on to quote the spokesperson for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson on the issue. "It is our expectation that people meet their obligations, that there are consequences for failure to pay, and that we enc