Would you care to provide more details? Location, articles, etc? Lived in Ohio 50+ years, but I can't recall seeing anything. I only really track 3 counties or so, if it wasn't local I would't know what happened.
You probably wouldn't have heard about the corrupt cop in the news, because of his frame and coverup, but maybe someday if justice is served. The original civil issue was, even covered by the Dispatch and NPR. That's how it all started, then when AEP additionally bullied their way onto the township road right-of-way without authority and the jury verdict was a precedent setting amount for an eminent domain case of 1500' of rural road frontage. AEP was livid. All we had told them was they would have to bury the line for us to agree to an easement, but nope, no one was going to tell them no. Their engineer was marking out one day and told DH that they could've easily buried the line, but that they intended to make an "example" out of us. We actually "peacefully protested" their unlawful acts a few days after they began cutting our trees down for working on the road -- without a permit to work in the road or to ultimately construct an electric line that crossed the township road back and forth 3 times. A trustee and county engineer requested a meeting with their legal counsel, the prosecutor, but she did nothing. No doubt she was threatened by AEP's attorney just like we had been. After the first 2 days of protests, they returned with hired state actors via the sheriff himself. "That's why we were hired, because she was yelling" testified the deputy who had brutally assaulted us on his first day employed by AEP. So, he essentially admitted they were hired to oppress our free speech. We were both at work all day and ate out so that we wouldn't arrive home until after 5 p.m., but there they were again blocking the road and our driveway (and without a road work permit). Neither of us got out of our pickup idling and waiting for the trucks to be moved. The perjury was incredible, both from the deputy and the AEP employee. The contractor employees actually told the truth and their foreman said it took 3-5 minutes for them to clear the road. The AEP employee swore his unoccupied truck was never blocking the road, that he never moved it, and that DH just drove around him. Parking a truck blocking a road is a crime. The deputy told the truth about the trucks blocking the road and being moved, testifying before the AEP employee, but then changed his story during his subsequent testimony. It should have been over right then and there, defense lawyers proved both of his stories couldn't be true about that, that he was a liar. It's actually a duty of the state, but the truth has never mattered, only damage control. We weren't assaulted anywhere near the road. After they moved their trucks and DH drove on through and home, we got out of our pickup and the deputy was coming down our driveway. Hocking County is the location, you should be able to find articles if you're able to view them. The criminal case court opinions will all be slanted to whatever they want to print. They rarely write what the actual pleadings stated, because their decision is pre-determined so they write towards that. They rarely follow the law when it favors a defendant. I do have an OSC mandamus/prohibition action direct appeal pending 2021-0234 on one single issue if you like that sort of reading. My merit brief gives some info on the lying deputy but I needed to stay on point of an unlawful sentence. If you can read the original "criminal" article in the LDN, you'll see that DH was never even mentioned. The deputy pepper-sprayed him twice and he wasn't charged with non-existent arrestable acts/crimes until the following week, yet he was never arrested. We had filed a federal civil rights case after the first trial against me (mistrial) and then they were really out to put me in my "place" to avert us from prevailing on our case. While they had me unlawfully imprisoned (no attorney while being sentenced for a felony crime is unlawful), they fabricated another felony against me, "vandalism", to make sure I didn't get out in time to keep the federal case alive. I was in an awful place. I was attacked by a gang of deputies while imprisoned and witnessed worse towards a mentally incompetent black woman that was refused her medication. She was pending arraignment on petty theft. The horrors I witnessed compelled me to insist that DH forward a complaint directly to the US district attorney. I was targeted even more after they found that out and we expected it, but at least she was finally free from them when the mental health facility rescued her the following day. One evening I was on the phone for just under 3 hours with DH and only at the beginning and end of the conversation did a deputy ever come into that tank. There was no way for us to communicate if of of us was in distress and there were no cameras watching any part of the "tank" where I was locked up 23/7 in "protective custody" (because my brother was a LEO in that city). I was moved to that prison from the one I was ordered to, and there was no order to move me, but the sheriff also unlawfully arranged that. He and his deputies had plenty of influence over the warden prison, but clearly more so over the Franklin Co prison. The court system could care less for the most part, what a "criminal" has to say, no matter how much evidence there is, the corruption and protecting other state actors is incredible.
ETA: 307.42, 307.43, 307.99 and 311.29 make it unlawful for a sheriff to contract out his deputies or cruisers to a private corporation for unofficial business. Who's watching the sheriff?
ETA: photo taken by LDN reporter for her story, there were trucks nearby on the single lane road and she had to turn around
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