Jun 29, 2021 An Ashland County Common Pleas Court Judge will not be seeking re-election. According to RichlandSource.com, Ronald Forsthoefel will not be running for a third term, which his current term will expire in February of 2023.Forsthoefel said he will be 65 at that time and does not have the energy or desire to run a contested campaign. He said that he would seek re-election if unopposed.
Jun 29, 2021 An Ashland County Common Pleas Court Judge will not be seeking re-election. According to RichlandSource.com, Ronald Forsthoefel will not be running for a third term, which his current term will expire in February of 2023.Forsthoefel said he will be 65 at that time and does not have the energy or desire to run a contested campaign. He said that he would seek re-election if unopposed.
Last week, 5th District Court of Appeals Judge William Hoffman wrote Watson s sentencing was unconstitutional, ruling Ashland County Common Pleas Court failed to take Watson s youth into consideration prior to sentencing.
Hoffman cited an Ohio Supreme Court case, State vs Patrick, where Chief Justice Maureen O Connor cited a scene from the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, making a connection between the juvenile offender and Red, a prison character played by Morgan Freeman.
How did The Shawshank Redemption help Watson? In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, the character Red, portrayed by Morgan Freeman, faces the parole board after having served 40 years of a life sentence and having been previously denied parole twice after serving 20 and 30 years of his sentence. In response to a member of the parole board s question about whether he has been rehabilitated, he responds:
State begins laying out case in takeover bid of Young Star Academy
Defense says case based on disgruntled former employee
Alexander Thompson
Special to Ashland Times-Gazette
ASHLAND State attorneys laid out the case Tuesday that a youth treatment center in the Mohican Memorial State Forest has a pattern of putting the children in its care in improper restraints that present a risk to their health and safety.
It was part of an injunction hearing on the Ohio Attorney General’s motion to remove the director of Mohican Young Star Academy and to install a new manager.
The case is being heard in Ashland County Common Please Court.