Law license suspension stayed for Hanni

Staff report

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Supreme Court has issued Atty. Heidi A. Hanni of Boardman a six-month suspension of her law license but stayed the entire suspension.

The suspension, announced Thursday, was based on complaints by the Mahoning County Bar

Association that she failed to zealously represent a man who wanted to withdraw his guilty plea and made unfounded accusations against county Prosecutor Paul J. Gains’ office on a radio show.

Hanni collected $2,500 from the man who wanted to withdraw his guilty plea to an aggravated vehicular homicide charge, but she failed to make any oral or written motions on the court record for him to do that, thereby failing to preserve the issue for a potential appeal, the association said.

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