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Judge William Grim of Athens, OH; moronic loser

 
The state of Ohio provided William Allan Grim with a law license in 1974 after he graduated from Ohio State University Law School.
 
In November 2012, William Grim succeeded in duping the voters in Athens County into electing him as a judge to the Athens County Municipal Court.
 
In one matter, Judge Grim presided over the criminal case of Kelly Kasler who was charged with obstructing official business and resisting arrest during the Halloween weekend in 2013
 
After her arrest, Judge Grim refused Ms. Kasler’s request for a public defender. Ms. Kasler told Grim during a court hearing that her parents would not pay for a lawyer and that she had no funds to hire one.
 
Judge Grim noted that Kasler’s parents had paid for her tuition and housing and listed her as a dependent on their taxes and carried her on their health insurance. Grim then considered their $100,000 household income in finding that she was disqualified from getting a public defender.
 
Any reasonably intelligent jurist with an I.Q. approaching triple digits would know that parents are under no obligation to give adult child money. Therefore, their income cannot be viewed and/or considered in deciding whether a defendant is lawfully entitled to the appointment of a public defender in a criminal matter.
 
As one would suspect, the Fourth District Court of Appeals reversed Grim’s asinine denial of a public defender for Ms. Kasler. In the court’s ruling it stated in part:
 
  1. Grim abused his discretion in ruling Kasler didn’t qualify for a public defender because her family earns too much money
  2. Grim’s ruling appears to display “not the exercise of reason but instead passion or bias.”
  3. Grim overstepped his legal authority
  4. Grim’s abuse of discretion implies an “attitude that was unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
  5. “To show an abuse of discretion, the result of [Grim’s ruling] must be so palpably and grossly violative of fact or logic that it evidences not the exercise of will but the perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment but he defiance of judgment. “
 
As we speak (ca. January 2014), Judge Grim continues to sit on the Athens County Municipal Court in Athens, Ohio.
 
 

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