Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Mason's Appeal Of Appellate Decision That He Produce Alleged Confidential Informant In Art McKoy Drug Case
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 The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday denied leave to appeal and refused to hear an appeal sought by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason on behalf of the State of Ohio where the county prosecutor challenged a decision earlier this year by the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. That decision supports a previous order by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo, the trial judge in the case, for Mason to immediately give the attorneys for community activist Art McKoy the name of the alleged confidential informant against him so that they can prepare him for any trial relative to a pending drug case. "Upon consideration of the jurisdictional memoranda filed in this case, the Court denies leave to appeal and dismisses the appeal as not involving any substantial constitutiona