Justice Sharon Kennedy of Ohio; Arrogant, Lifetime Porker  

The state of Ohio presented Sharon L. Kennedy with law license in 1991 after she graduated from the University of Cincinnati School of Law.

It should be noted that Sharon has had her significant snout firmly implanted in the public trough for the thirty-years. Apparently, no self-respecting law firm in the Butler County area was about to offer Sharon a good paying job.

In one matter, Capital Care Network asked Sharon to recuse herself from their case since Sharon had recently (August 2017) given a speech at a Greater Toledo Right to Life event. Put simply, Sharon is an avowed anti-abortion critic who fully supports the right-to-life movement in Ohio and elsewhere.

Despite this obvious and clear “conflict of interest” Sharon had the chutzpah to deny the recusal request by saying:

“Having reviewed the request, I find it to be without merit and will continue to participate in the case.”

What is extremely upsetting is the fact that in Ohio as elsewhere, a request to have a judge recuse himself or herself for any reason is left to the offending judge to decide. In other words, a litigant is forced to ask the judge who may well be acting unethically to admit that such a claim is true.

This is analogous to asking Donald “Trumporleone” Trump to admit that he’s a congenital liar.

If the system in Ohio and elsewhere was truly interested in dispensing justice rather than “dispensing with justice” recusal decisions would be taken out of the hands of the judge being asked to remove himself or herself from a case.

To make sure that the recusal decision is made fairly and without any political considerations and/or favoritism to a party to the litigation, the decision should be rendered by a committee of 5 laypersons selected at random in each County just like jury pools are chosen.

The same judges/justices that praise a jury as able to render fair decisions in complicated medical/legal malpractice and product liability cases are totally against using the same system to judge whether they should be removed from a case or disciplined for misconduct.

And lastly Arrogant Sharon and/or anyone of her ilk sitting on the bench should not be allowed to issue a ruling determining their recusal no matter the reasoning behind the recusal request.

As we speak (ca. September 2017) Sharon continues to sit as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in Columbus, Ohio.