The Lorain County prosecutor blasted a predecessor Thursday, saying the office’s withholding of evidence ensured that two people accused of sexually abusing children “would serve many years in prison – needlessly.”
Prosecutor J.D. Tomlinson told a judge that the allegations against Joseph Allen and Nancy Smith, who were convicted in an infamous abuse case in 1994, “did not occur, that each defendant is factually innocent of all charges alleged in the indictments.”
Tomlinson stressed that his office reviewed the entire investigation, from the transcript of the trial to the reports by officers and the lineups of children. He said he reached out to the victims to meet with him and “share their thoughts with me.” None sought him out. “I have the utmost faith in the people in that office, that they went to work to do what was right,” said White, who later became the U.S. attorney for northern Ohio and a federal magistrate judge.
The case went to trial in July 1994, with Rosenbaum and Smith’s defense attorney, Jack Bradley, often angry at each other.
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