Chasing Justice

Beaten attorney Heather McCollough “retires” 4 weeks after Judge Dawson confirms arrests like Basheer Jones’ disappeared between police and prosecutor’s office without a court hearing

CLEVELAND, OH – In a letter dated July 2, 2021 troubled attorney Heather McCollough advised attorney Willa Hemmons that she was “retiring” effective July 2, 2021.  McCullough wrote that she’d like to wait and return to the administration within two months; and hoped the city of East Cleveland had benefitted from her presence in her request to work as a “double dipper.” At the bottom of McCollough’s letter below her signature were the words “Attorney for Defendant City of East Cleveland.”  McCollough hadn’t bothered to remove the words that gave her correspondence the appearance of being the signatory page on…

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Ohio law gave only coroner the authority to investigate every police homicide in counties

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH – Prosecuting Attorney Michael O’Malley would be well within his civil rights as an office holder to tell Attorney General David Yost to get his Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) investigators the fuck out of his county.  Coroner or medical examiner Dr. Thomas Gilson under Ohio law is the lone official state lawmakers charged with the duty and gave authority to investigate the cause of all violent deaths in  Cuyahoga County.  Yost’s office failed to ensure the private individuals who control East Cleveland’s police department, and were involved in a November 5 shooting that resulted in a…

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