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Judge Lance Mason of Cleveland; wife beater, loser

 

 

The state of Ohio presented Lance Timothy Mason with a law license in 1996 after he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School.

 

Former Gov. Ted Strickland was duped into appointing Lance as a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge in August 2008. Lance didn’t receive the appointment because he was the most qualified attorney in the Cleveland area. He received it because had proven to be a reliable lackey for the local political hacks.

 

In early August 2014, Judge Mason was arrested after police received a 911 call from a woman who said that saw two people fighting inside a vehicle in Shaker Heights (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

 

The arrest report accused Lance of punching, biting, and choking his wife. It was reported that the wife suffered “serious facial injuries.” Lance’s children, ages 4 and 6, were also in the car at the time he was assaulting his wife.

 

Twenty minutes later, Lance was arrested at his home in Cleveland after his sister called police and said that he was threatening to kill himself with a gun. Unfortunately, the threat was not carried out.

 

The Plain Dealer reported that law enforcement officers confiscated a cache of weapons from inside Lance’s home for “safe keeping.” Those weapons included the following:

  • About 2,300 live rounds of various calibers
  • Nearly 500 shotgun slugs
  • A Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun
  • A Winchester shotgun
  • A 50-shell shotgun belt
  • A FNH P90 semi-automatic rifle still in the box
  • A JLD Enterprises Inc. PTR-91 semi-automatic rifle with a scope
  • A Smith & Wesson handgun
  • A Springfield Armory .40 caliber-handgun
  • A sword
  • Four canisters of smoke grenades
  • A KDH bulletproof vest
  • A jaguar knife

All that’s left now is to see if Lance the Abuser is convicted on the felonious assault charges and how long his prison sentence will be.

 

As we speak (ca. August 2014), Lance continues to sit on the bench in Cleveland while collecting his annual salary of $121,500, which equates to $2,336 a week.