ONE OF THEM BITES THE DUST, A FEW MORE TO GO AT THE MEDINA COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE

HERE IS THE FIRST TO FALL AT THE MEDINA COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE!


The following article was posted at the Cleveland Plain Dealer website, www. cleveland.com, on September 9, 2011.  A direct link to the article: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/ohio_supreme_court_suspends_as.html

Ohio Supreme Court suspends assistant Medina County prosecutor's law license

Published: Friday, September 09, 2011, 2:31 PM     Updated: Saturday, September 10, 2011, 5:24 AM

By John Caniglia, The Plain Dealer 
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MEDINA, Ohio -- An assistant Medina County prosecutor had his law license suspended for six months for improperly notarizing signatures while in private practice and refusing to take responsibility for his actions.

The Ohio Supreme Court sanctioned Tom Karris for the misconduct, which took place years before he began representing the county.

Karris improperly notarized documents on three different occasions in 2000 and 2001, according to a ruling of the Ohio Supreme Court released last week. He went to work for Prosecutor Dean Holman's office in 2008, where he represented townships and the county in litigation. The state disciplinary counsel filed the complaint against Karris in December 2009.

"Since the time he has worked here, he has done an outstanding job for the residents of Medina County," Holman said. "This occurred nine years before the filing of the complaint and eight years before he came to work here."

Holman and Medina County Common Pleas Judge James Kimbler testified on behalf of Karris, "attesting to his integrity, excellent character and good reputation," the Supreme Court reported in its decision.

Holman said Karris will put together a list of cases that he had been working on. He stopped working as an attorney last week and Holman was unsure if Karris would return to the office.

Karris, who lives in Strongsville, could not be reached to comment on the suspension.

The Supreme Court's decision said Karris notarized documents twice in January 2000 and once in January 2001. The documents included a promissory note, a mortgage and quitclaim deed and a land contract. Each time, Karris notarized papers that said a man and his then-wife signed the documents.

Karris eventually became a third-party defendant in a lawsuit against the man. During the course of the case, questions arose as to who had signed the documents Karris notarized.

In the proceedings against Karris, the state disciplinary board heard conflicting accounts on whether the woman signed the records. The man and woman, who divorced in 2003, testified that the woman did not sign any of the documents. The man said he had signed her name, according to the Supreme Court's decision. He previously had said in an affidavit in another legal proceeding that she had signed two of the documents.

Karris testified that the woman had signed the records in his presence. One of Karris' other clients testified that he had been present when the man and woman signed the documents.

The Supreme Court's decision said a forensic document examiner for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation testified that the signatures purporting to be the woman's were not hers. The examiner testified that there is "a high-degree of certainty" that the signatures were of her former husband, according to the board's decision.

"(Karris) improperly notarized documents on three separate occasions," the Supreme Court's report said. "He also steadfastly refused to acknowledge the wrongful nature of his conduct . . . even when confronted with forensic evidence" that the woman did not sign the documents.

SO, IT WOULD SEEM, THAT CORRUPT MEDINA COUNTY PROSECUTOR DINO HOLMAN HIRES ONLY THOSE "ATTORNEYS" WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF PAST CORRUPT ACTIVITIES, LIKE FORGERY, PERJURY, TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE, TAMPERING WITH RECORDS, ALL FELONY VIOLATIONS OF THE OHIO REVISED CODE.

Here's a quote from another online article from George Spudnutt's Medina Gasette, found at http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com/2011/09/10/assistant-prosecutor-suspended/

Tom Karris, of Strongsville, was suspended Sept. 1 by the Ohio Supreme Court for six months. According to the court, there is “clear and convincing evidence that Karris engaged in dishonesty, fraud and deceit that adversely reflected on his ability to practice law by improperly notarizing documents on three separate occasions” in the early 2000s.

Readers may also wish to view reader comments to the Cleveland Plain Dealer online article at http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/ohio_supreme_court_suspends_as/691/comments.html 

KARRIS IS OBVIOUSLY HOLMAN'S KIND OF GUY, AND MEETS ALL HOLMAN'S REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYMENT AT "HIS" OFFICE. 

While Kariss is obviously a liar, as found by the Supreme Court of Ohio, he certainly does not evidence conduct suggestive of being a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, LIKE SCOTT SALISBURY!

The reader will take note or the fact that, according to the article, "Holman and Medina County Common Pleas Judge James Kimbler testified on behalf of Karris, "attesting to his integrity, excellent character and good reputation," the Supreme Court reported in its decision."


The complete Opinion of the Supreme Court of Ohio can be found here: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2011/2011-Ohio-4243.pdf

Now isn't that remarkable?  CORRUPT MEDINA COUNTY PROSECUTOR DINO HOLMAN, THE NUMBER ONE PURVEYOR OF DISHONESTY IN THE COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE, TESTIFIED AS TO THE "INTEGRITY, EXCELLENT CHARACTER, AND GOOD REPUTATION" OF KARRIS!

THE ONE GLARING QUESTION REGARDING HOLMAN'S TESTIMONY REMAINS: IN COMPARISON TO WHOM AND TO WHAT?  IN COMPARISON TO HOLMAN, COLLIER, AND SALISBURY?


IF SO, ONE MIGHT CONSIDER THAT HOLMAN, COLLIER, AND SALISBURY MAY VERY WELL MAKE CHARLES MANSON LOOK LIKE A PARAGON OF VIRTUE!

THIS IS JUST ONE MORE BIT OF PROOF THAT MEDINA COUNTY NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY THE CRIMINAL DIVISION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.  THE SOONER THE BETER!

MUCH MORE TO COME ....