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May 11, 2021
The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to take any disciplinary action against Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Becker, but that doesn’t make his unprofessional social media posts acceptable.
Becker is known throughout Trumbull County and even Ohio for his excellent work in fighting for victims of crime in his tough and thorough prosecution of criminals. He is a very good trial attorney and, at least once, he has been named Outstanding Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Ohio by the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.
But even the best misstep, and unquestionably, Becker did.
A complaint filed with the Ohio Supreme Court in 2019 called into question several social media posts on Becker’s personal Twitter account that poked fun largely at county criminal defendants.
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LISBON During a court hearing last week, before ordering a woman to be taken into custody to serve a 10-day jail sentence, Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam asked a couple unfamiliar questions.
“Not to embarrass you, but I must ask, are your currently pregnant?” Washam asked, followed quickly by, “Have you had a child in the past six weeks?”
The questions came from concerns over a new state regulation that went into effect April 12 regarding limits for restraining or placing women or girls into solitary confinement while they are pregnant or recently postpartum.
The Ohio House bill deals with several changes to the laws regarding sentencing, but one of the changes creates new civil rights regarding those currently or recently pregnant. Once a woman or girl have been charged with a crime. if they are known to be pregnant or have been pregnant within the past six weeks, there are few exceptions when they can be handcuffed or restrained by items such as l