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Municipal Courts and County Courts are law courts of limited jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Ohio. They handle cases involving traffic , non-traffic misdemeanors , evictions and small civil claims (in which the amount in controversy does not exceed $3,000 for small claims and $15,000 for municipal court).
Michael A. Cicconetti (born 1951) is a retired Municipal Court judge who presided in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, United States, dispensing a unique brand of what he calls creative justice. The judge often left the choice of penalty to the defendant , who was faced with spending time in jail or undergoing one of Cicconetti's unusual punishments.
Chillicothe Correction Institution, or CCI, is a state-run medium security prison on the west bank of the Scioto River just outside Chillicothe, Ohio. It is located adjacent to Ross Correctional Institution and Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The prison is a former military camp, named for Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.
The county has a total area of 693 square miles (1,790 km 2), of which 689 square miles (1,780 km 2) is land and 3.8 square miles (9.8 km 2) (0.6%) is water. [9] Ross County is the second-largest county by land area in Ohio, after Ashtabula County, as well as the fifth-largest by total area.
Ohio's prison system is the sixth-largest in America, with 27 state prisons and three facilities for juveniles. In December 2018, the number of inmates in Ohio totaled 49,255, with the prison system spending nearly $1.8 billion that year. [2] ODRC headquarters are located in Columbus. [3]
Mayor's courts are state courts in Ohio created by some municipalities.Mayor's courts hear traffic cases, violations of city ordinances and other misdemeanors.The presiding officer is a magistrate (not a judge) appointed by the mayor, or even being the mayor, and paid by the city or village.
Chillicothe pro bowler Brandon Novak, 35, was sentenced to almost 5 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender. ... Novak tried to contact the ex-girlfriend via phone, text, email ...
Painesville is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Ohio, United States, [4] located along the Grand River. It is a northeast suburb of Cleveland . Its population was 20,312 at the 2020 census .