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Ohio Parole Hearing Officer Acquitted in Bribe Case
Loaded on April 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2001, page 4
After a three-day trial, a jury acquitted an Ohio parole-hearing officer of charges that he sold early parole releases to prisoners.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Parole Board Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution,
Parole.
Location:
Ohio.
On Nov. 9, 2000, as Lorain Co. Common Pleas Judge Lynett M. McGough read the verdict, parole hearing officer Harold K. Miller clapped his hands once above his head …
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