Suspended juvenile court Judge Tracie Hunter
(Photo: Enquirer file/Liz Dufour)
[From article]
Singleton filed an emergency request asking the court to postpone or suspend her jail sentence. A Hamilton County judge and the First District Court of Appeals already denied the request.
Earlier this month, Hunter was sentenced to spend six months in jail after being convicted of having an unlawful interest in a public contract.
Singleton said the Ohio Supreme Court's decision sets the appeals process in motion. He said the conviction appeal could take one year to be complete and legal briefs could be due in the spring.
Three jurors have recanted their guilty verdict since the trial, which Hunter supporters have used as fuel to question the process used to convict her.
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Just before the early December sentencing hearing, Croswell and fellow Special Prosecutor Merlyn Shiverdecker wrote to Judge Norbert Nadel that "If Tracie Hunter does not receive sufficient punishment, it will only confirm to the community what Tracie Hunter believes; she is above the law and for whatever reason, is allowed to play by a different set of rules than the rest of us."
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Hunter, 48, was convicted in October of interfering with the firing of her brother, juvenile court worker Stephen Hunter, after he punched a teen inmate in the face. She was convicted for using her position as a judge to obtain documents regarding the medical and mental history of the teen inmate punched in the face by her brother. He later used those documents, which are supposed to be protected by privacy laws, to try to save his job.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/12/26/supreme-court-rules-tracie-hunter/20918031/
Ohio Supreme Court: Tracie Hunter can avoid jail for now
Bowdeya Tweh, btweh (at) enquirer.com
10:24 a.m. EST December 27, 2014
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