Backlog of Mahoning County grand jury cases is eliminated

YOUNGSTOWN — When the new Mahoning County grand jury conducts its first session Thursday, it will have no backlog of cases from prior years, and only nine cases passed on to it from the grand jury that served for the first four months of this year.

This contrasts with the backlog of 39 cases, some dating back almost three years, that confronted the previous grand jury when it conducted its first meeting on Jan. 8.

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who was the grand jury judge for the first four months of this year, said he told Paul J. Gains, county prosecutor, that he wanted the backlog eliminated.

Read more in Thursday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com