Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Clancy held that Demarkco Johnson should be allowed to withdraw his plea and reopen discovery in his case to prepare for a possible trial.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A judge on Wednesday threw out the guilty pleas that two former East Cleveland police officers entered in January to a bribery charge that accused them of filing false police reports as part of an insurance fraud scheme.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Clancy held that Demarkco Johnson should be allowed toand reopen discovery in his case to prepare for a possible trial. She cited testimony that Johnson’s former attorney gave at a hearing earlier this month that he did not review all of the evidence before he allowed Johnson to take the deal, which carried a potential three-year prison sentence.
Johnson is charged alongside Von Harris, who also pleaded guilty but did not seek to back out of his plea. However, Cuyahoga County prosecutors said previously the plea bargain was a package deal, meaning that if Johnson successfully withdrew his plea, Harris’s deal would be rescinded.“We are grateful the judge made the right decision and that Mr. Johnson is going to have the opportunity to have a fair trial,” Johnson’s attorney Allison Hibbard said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley’s office, which fought to keep the plea deal in tact, declined to comment. Harris and Johnson were indicted in September on multiple counts each of bribery, tampering with evidence and one count of insurance fraud. They are among
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