Blacks still being denied felony jury trials in Cleveland's Cuyahoga County as common pleas judges, led by Chief Judge Brendan Sheehan, try to coerce plea deals or guilty pleas for County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley's office while unconstitutionally denying people such right to a jury trial and using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse.... And some Blacks and others remain in jail awaiting a jury trial as the coronavirus plagues the county jail where more than 10 inmates have died in the past three years, at least one of them murdered.... Community activists continue to demand that Judge Sheehan resign from the bench....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding and Administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio - Led by presiding and administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan (pictured), the 34 largely White judges of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas general division bench in Cleveland, Ohio are attempting to coerce defendants into taking plea deals or pleading guilty by denying them their statutory and constitutional right to a jury trial, even though the judges, who hear the felony cases at issue, ha
