Cleveland Judge Kathleen Keough Accused Of More Corruption And Harassment Against Black Journalist As Are Clerk Turner And Wayne Kerek, Her Attorney

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Friday, February 12, 2010
Cleveland Judge Kathleen Keough Accused Of More Corruption And
Harassment Against Black Journalist As Are Clerk Turner And Wayne
Kerek, Her Attorney

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough

From the Metro Desk of The Determiner Weekly.Com and
The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
(Cleveland, Ohio Area News)

Attorney Wayne Kerek has colluded with Cleveland Municipal Court Judge
Kathleen Ann Keough and Cleveland Clerk of Court Earl B. Turner to
illegally have his client's bond raised from $3 thousand to $5
thousand on an illegal warrant issued by the judge, a local journalist
claims. Both are 10 percent of some unidentified bond figure.

Keough, on Sept. 25, 2009, issued a bench warrant with a 10 percent
bond of $3 thousand for African-American Journalist Kathy Wray
Coleman, who did not appear before the judge for sentencing following
a two day trial in May of 2009 where the judge is accused of
orchestrating an illegal resisting arrest verdict even though sole
White male arresting peace officer Gerald Pace did not accuse her of
it or testify at trial, and Coleman denied the charge during her hour
long testimony.

Jurors allegedly said after trial last May that they exonerated
Coleman on other charges of making false alarms, aggravated disorderly
conduct and obstruction of official business, all brought by the City
of Cleveland after the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper in 2008
published some 38 articles written by the journalist of 15 years, due
to her stunning testimony. But they said also that they were
allegedly forced by Keough via unorthodox jury instructions,
prosecutorial misconduct from assistant Cleveland prosecutors Lorraine
Coyne and Joan Bascone, and other alleged illegalities, to issue the
illegal resisting arrest verdict.

Coleman says that she did not appear at sentencing last September
before Keough where Kerek directed her not to, alleging that he feared
for her safety and that the judge might be unstable, a comment he made
again for Cleveland NAACP officials in a recent meeting where Coleman
sought intervention relative to the judge's ongoing harassment because
higher judicial officials are purportedly backing Keough allegedly
because she is White and seemingly corrupt. Coleman is a Black and by
some standards outspoken.

The case docket reveals that the initial bond was 10 percent of $3
thousand and that Keough set it last September after Coleman skipped
sentencing allegedly per Kerek's advice. But on December 29, 2009
Keough, after a hearing to lift the warrant that Kerek says he missed
and was not notified of, denied Kerek's request to lift the warrant
issued last September, and she issued another bench warrant and
capias, coupled with changing the the bond terms by making the bond
$3 thousand as 10 percent of an unidentified number. This meant that
Coleman needed $3 thousand cash, the online public case docket
reveals. Coleman says she recorded Kerek admitting that he did not
tell her of the so-called December hearing as to potentially lifting
the warrant and that Keough allegedly lied saying he attended.

Keough allegedly got Kerek to make the same request for a bond
lifting hearing that he made in December 2009 on or about January 12,
2010 allegedly so that it could give her an illegal forum to increase
the bond by claiming that his client missed another scheduled hearing
, though it is illegal to rule twice on requests such as the motion to
lift the bond. On February, 2, 2010 the runaway judge issued an
identical ruling, denying the request to lift the bond as she and
Kerek had allegedly orchestrated, and she also alleged that Coleman
again failed to appear before her on that date, though at no time has
Coleman be ordered to do so since last September when she skipped
sentencing, the online case docket reveals.

The case docket reveals that also on February, 2 Keough issued
another bench warrant and increased Coleman's bond to $5 thousand as
10 percent of some unidentified number, or $5 thousand cash. But
because the judge allegedly needed a scheme to lure Coleman to court
and then put her in jail, the journalist says she allegedly enlisted
the help of Turner for assistance. Accordingly, he allegedly sent
Coleman a letter dated February, 3 saying the new bond is $5 thousand
dollars and that figure may or may not mean 10 percent of $5 thousand.

Coleman contends that it is all geared toward tricking her into
appearing to post a bond via Turner's letter of a potential 10 percent
of a $5 thousand bond or $500 dollars that he issued Feb 3. She adds
that Keough would then lock her up if she does not bring thousands of
dollars in cash for a bond by saying she ordered $5 thousand cash as
10 percent of some unidentified figure and not 10 percent of $5
thousand, or $500. According to Coleman, Keough could then jail her
giving her the vehicle to continue in jail the harassment that the
journalist says she has imposed on her since 2008 when she was
allegedly handed the case to harass her with an alleged promise of an
endorsement by certain Democrats for the seat that she is now seeking
on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals for a term commencing in
2011.

“These people are corrupt and despicable and we again call on the FBI
to investigate as well as Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason,” said
Coleman “Judge Keough can do as she pleases because I am Black and she
is White, and people like Turner, who is Black, help her.”

Coleman said that her father has advised her to protect herself if
Keough sends anybody in her home if the entrance is illegal and she
fears for her life, where the journalist says the judge has repeatedly
harassed her by having people call the house, and come on the property
to bang on the door and blow the car horn for hours.

“I feel so unsafe now and I honestly belief that Judge Keough is
potentially off as Kerek has repeatedly alleged, said Coleman. "I
again ask Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes to intervene. "

Coleman says that the harassment has escalated since she recently met
with NAACP officials and that certain people not affiliated with the
NAACP directly have told her to keep quiet about the judicial
corruption that is allegedly hurting the Black community for her own
safety, including alleged case fixing as to the assignment processes
for municipal court judges in Ohio.

" A now disbarred White female lawyer that challenged the illegal
assignment processes for municipal court judges in Ohio where visiting
judges that are retired are assigned throughout the state, some of
whom come to town to allegedly violate the law and harass Democrats
and others, is serving eight years in prison and I do believe that if
Judge Keough gets me in jail as people have promised via threats I may
not get out this time. I therefore knew what to expect when corrupt
visiting judge Guatalo Nunez of Lorain, Oh. was sent down on me to
replace runaway Lyndhurst Municipal Court Judge Mary Kaye Bozza
relative to a bogus criminal case against me that was dismissed in
February 2009. I was threatened on behalf of certain judges when
jailed in the county in 2008 by Nunez without any authority and
released without charges after, of course, being held naked and given
a knockout drug, where I had followed the case of the disbarred and
now imprisoned lawyer. The Lyndhurst case is the impetus for the
malicious prosecution by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Law
Director Robert Triozzi in Cleveland relative to the resisting arrest
verdict before Keough where they had me attacked and arrested after
leaving a civil hearing at the Justice Center in August 2008 with the
help of Cuyahoga County Judges Timothy McGinty and John O'Donnell,
though both had no criminal jurisdiction and were presiding over
civil cases involving my mortgage company of Chase Manhattan Mortgage
and the malicious prosecution issue where Shaker had me prosecuted to
no avail for writing about alleged housing discrimination in the Call
and Post."

The journalist said that she will be relieved when Ohio Supreme Court
Chief Justice Thomas Moyer retires this year and that Keough is taking
her orders from a powerful group of people, an explanation, she says,
for the judge's non stop harassment and blatant disregard for the law.

According to Coleman, Moyer is angry because she did Call and Post
articles in 2008 that exposed the way he sends judges throughout the
state to different locations rather than assigning sitting judges in
the community that are accoutable to voters, and because she filed a
nonmonetary lawsuit after he assigned Nunez to replace Bozza relative
to the subsequently dismissed criminal charge against her that was
pending in Lyndhurst.

"There is a reason that Judge Keough can get away with doing as she
pleases in violation of the law and I feel like a character in the
motion picture movie titled 'The Pelican Brief," said Coleman.

Coleman says that she hopes the bar association suspends both Kerek
and Keough and that Kerek began acting odd as her attorney in the case
before Keough after he was asked to contact the Ohio Supreme Court by
telephone late last year. She says also that she hopes that Turner is
prosecuted by Mason for the alleged tampering with public records
regarding continual alleged illegalities with the case docket before
Keough and before other judges in other cases, a felony offense.

In her case she says that Turner has falsified the dates of filings
on Keough's case docket in hopes of hurting an appeal and that he
fixed the case docket to illegally reflect numberous arrests when she
has yet to be arrested in the matter before Keough.

According to Coleman, Keough's case docket also denotes numberous
false charges of aggravated disorderly conduct that do not exist since
she was exonerated last May of that charge, in what the journalist
says is an attempt to defame her via a public online case docket
because the judge is allegedly angry because all she could pull off
relative to the trial last May that was before her and involved other
bogus misdemeanor charges against the long time journalist was a
simple resisting arrest verdict."

"She's holding on to that resisting arrest verdict for dear life and
could have simply issued a fine after trial last May, even though the
verdict is illegal, said Coleman " Instead, this seemingly corrupt
judge set sentencing some six weeks later, though it was rescheduled
to last September, and began harassing me with telephone calls from
her subordinates and harassing rulings geared to try to destroy me. I
believe that she is just as potentially unstable as my attorney Wayne
Kerek says she is , and he does not appear much removed from such an
assessment himself where his slickness has come to haunt him."

According to Coleman, the Plain Dealer and Call and Post newspapers,
and Nineteen Action News, have copies of the corrupted case docket
before Judge Keough that Coleman says she just recently sent and the
community activist says that other data has been reviewed by one of
her former attorneys as to the judicial corruption and other
corruption.

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Posted By Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman to THE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN
ONLINE NEWS BLOG AND MEDIA NETWORK at 2/12/2010 01:24:00 AM

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