Stark County jury delivers Not Guilty verdict in 45-minutes on five-count, two-felony indictment based on flawed Canton Police investigation
Yesterday a Stark County jury came back in about 45 minutes with a Not Guilty verdict on all five counts, including two felonies, in a case that started with an eight-count, five-felony indictment wherein our client’s baby’s mother was very obviously lying about him to gain leverage in a dispute over custody of their baby. … The Canton Police Department and Stark County Prosecutor Kyle Stone owe our client an apology and more. Unfortunately, the judge-made doctrines of qualified immunity for police and absolute immunity for prosecutors make it extremely difficult for victims of police and prosecutorial abuses to obtain justice and accountability for their injuries. Thankfully there’s a group called The Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity that’s close to securing a statewide ballot initiative whereby Ohio voters will get to decide whether to abolish this harmful doctrine that’s helped turn our “free country” into more of a police state than it’s been in generations.