Either she committed a crime or she didn’t. Which is it?
She isn’t guilty. It says she gave a confidential information to her brother when he was charged with a crime. But she wasn’t found guilty of that. She was found guilty of “unlawful interest in a public contract” which is a criminal code written too limit influence in business dealings with the government. Read it for yourself. http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2921.42
That has nothing to do with helping a family member legally navigate criminal proceedings with information that was not confidential. (Which is why they couldn’t charge her with breaching confidentiality.) This is a trumped up process crime just like Mueller is trying to create with Trump.
She was actually charged with helping her brother get a job in the judicial office, charges that were brought 2 weeks after she blew the whistle on a corrupt judge. Her brother got the job before she was ever elected judge.
The jury included many friends and neighbors of the corrupt judge. It was not a unanimous verdict, but she was never allowed to poll the jury. Her case was presided over by a local judge, not a visiting judge.
Corrupt judges have a lot of ways to go after their opponents. And the state systems will often go after the whistleblower because they prefer falling with things in private. Is it hard to believe this could happen in other places? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal