Ex-Ohio Judge Loses Appeal in Suit Saying Politics Led to Charge

A then-Ohio judge convicted of having an unlawful interest in a public contract lost her bid for another shot at her due process suit alleging she was prosecuted because of politics, according to a Sixth Circuit Tuesday ruling.

Tracie Hunter was a judge on the Hamilton County Juvenile Court when her brother Steven, who worked as a corrections officer at the same court’s youth center, was accused of hitting one of the youth center residents. Hunter allegedly requested information related to the investigation into Steven and the resident, and passed that information to him. He was ultimately fired.

Hunter was ...