Posted on 07/22/2019 4:20:18 PM PDT by Reddy
In a dramatic scene at the Hamilton County Courthouse, Tracie Hunter, a former juvenile court judge, was dragged out of Judge Patrick Dinkelacker’s courtroom by her shoulders this morning after he executed a six-month jail sentence.
Hunter was convicted in 2014 of having “an unlawful interest in a public contract.” She also will serve one year of probation after she leaves the Hamilton County Justice Center.
The crowd in the courtroom erupted into shouting and at least one person appeared to charge forward from the spectator’s area and was arrested after Dinkelacker executed the sentence and said, "Take her away." A sheriff’s deputy subsequently removed Hunter from the courtroom, her feet dragging across the courtroom’s carpet toward its rear.
All before Trump's rally next Thursday, August 1st. How con.ven.ient.
blackamoors believe no rules apply to them due to ‘slavery’.
The crowd in the courtroom erupted into shouting and at least one person appeared to charge forward from the spectator’s area and was arrested after Dinkelacker executed the sentence and said, “Take her away.” A sheriff’s deputy subsequently removed Hunter from the courtroom, her feet dragging across the courtroom’s carpet toward its rear.
Former judge dragged from court as protests erupt
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Hamilton County Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, right, confers with Tracie Hunter’s attorney, David Singleton, amid the chaos that ensued after the sentence was executed Monday morning.
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Hamilton County Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, right, confers with Tracie Hunter’s attorney, David Singleton, amid the chaos that ensued after the sentence was executed Monday morning.
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Hunter was taken into custody nearly 4 ½ years after Dinkelacker’s predecessor, Judge Norbert Nadel, imposed the sentence. Nadel is now the Hamilton County recorder. Monday’s hearing came months after the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Hunter’s request for a stay.
“All of the state courts have looked at this. You can shake your head if you like,” Dinkelacker said to Hunter before executing the sentence. “They said she received a fair trial. They all did their duty.”
For several minutes, Dinkelacker read several postcards sent to his home asking him not to send her to jail, many anonymous, which mentioned that the people writing them were registered voters.
Several brought up the fact that Dinkelacker was the first of two drivers who struck and killed a pedestrian standing in the middle of Central Parkway in 2014. No charges were filed against the judge, and the woman killed had cocaine in her system, according to police.
“This came to my house,” he said. “I don’t think some of them were very Christian. If the attempt was to intimidate me … it has flat out failed.”
Dinkelacker asked if Hunter wanted to address the court. She initially declined but then came to the podium as the judge went over the various court rulings on her case. The judge declined to let Hunter speak at that point, saying she already had a chance to do so and had declined.
Earlier, Dinkelacker read a letter from Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters suggesting her mental health be evaluated.
“She has not once showed remorse,” Deters wrote, according to the judge. “I believe she has some kind of mental condition.”
Deters’ office did not prosecute the case. The special prosecutor, Scott Croswell, said he agreed with the letter. But Hunter’s defense attorney, David Singleton, opposed the idea, saying Hunter had no mental health issues and had ably assisted her attorneys as they pursued her case.
“I can’t believe Joe Deters would ask for her to be evaluated,” Singleton said.
Singleton said Hunter has not been remorseful because she did not commit a crime.
“The conviction is unjust. Six months in the jail in a felony (Class 4) for someone who has never been in trouble before and someone who ... still has a positive impact in our community is not just.”
Dinklelacker said he was doing his duty in executing the sentence.
Hunter’s conviction stemmed from accusations that she used her authority as a judge to get the medical records of an inmate that her brother, Steven Hunter, a former corrections officer, was fired for punching.
The Hamilton County Court of Appeals upheld Hunter’s conviction in January 2016. In a 4-3 vote, the Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear Hunter’s appeal later that year.
The jury in Hunter’s 2014 case could not decide on two counts of forgery, two counts of tampering with evidence, two counts of theft in office, one count of misusing a credit card and an additional count of having unlawful interest in a public contract. Hunter was not retried on those counts.
It’s safe to say her judicial career is over?
I believe it’s premeditated bedlam prior to Trump arriving next week. Along with Mueller’s testimony in a few days, the left is planning sheer havoc and chaos in the coming weeks.
I din do nuffin!
Omgosh- it would be outrageous if her judicial career was not over. We will see.
Yep. Didn’t have to look.
Imagine what they will do if real players from their side really get locked up.
So many judges...so little rope.
“It’s safe to say her judicial career is over?”
LOL! She’ll be the Chair of the DNC in the near future; six months behind bars is a Resume Enhancer!
Gosh I wonder how Africa got screwed up.
“LOL! She’ll be the Chair of the DNC in the near future; six months behind bars is a Resume Enhancer”
Like I said, this was totally staged!!
Cincinnati.
Theres another place to not visit.
Ever.
“Imagine what they will do if real players from their side really get locked up.”
IF ONLY we would have to experience this......
Yep.
Now that’s a strange place for “shoulders.” Looks to me that they dragged her away by the ‘pits.
As President Trump suggested, maybe she can join the four other kooks in a mission to Africa to fix that place.
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