Dissenting Justice Says 1-Year Suspension for Trial Judge Is 'Too Lenient,' Does Not 'Protect the Public'

In a 6-1 majority opinion issued final week, the Ohio Supreme Courtroom rejected a 32-year veteran Cuyahoga County decide’s try to remain his beneficial one-year suspension with out pay for allegedly committing 29 moral violations, together with coercing felony defendants to take plea offers he crafted.

Choose Daniel Gaul was instantly suspended from the bench with out pay for one 12 months. He was discovered to have dedicated 29 rule violations beneath eight counts that fell into classes like coercing pleas, aggressive questioning of a felony defendant, making demeaning feedback to a felony defendant and different individuals within the courtroom, abusing the status of judicial workplace to advance the non-public curiosity of others, refusing to grant launch from confinement and disregarding appellate court docket orders, and abusing contempt energy.