Former Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pinkey S. Carr has been found guilty of three counts of falsification, all first-degree misdemeanors, in connection with cases she heard while on the bench.
Carr had pleaded no contest to the charges, but a visiting judge presiding over the case found her guilty and sentenced her to four months probation.
“When the judge acts like a jester, justice goes awry,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said. “Today’s criminal sentencing enforces that no one is above the law.”The charges stem from her alleged actions during three separate court hearings. In the second case, on June 16, 2020, Carr also allegedly amended a charge without a prosecutor being present, as well as signed paperwork stating that she held a hearing about a defendant's ability to pay for court costs despite the hearing having never occurred, records state.
On Oct. 18, 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court issued an opinion removing Judge Pinkey S. Carr from her Cleveland Municipal Court bench, where she had served for more than a decade, due to her more than 100 incidents of misconduct going back several years.
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