Oakhill grand jury extended again

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County’s common-pleas judges have unanimously agreed to extend the grand jury probing potential criminal conflicts of interest in the county’s purchase of Oakhill Renaissance Place until July 30.

But the judgment entry that all eight of them signed and filed Thursday said this would be the second and final extension.

The grand jury’s originally scheduled four-month term was to expire April 30, but special prosecutors Dennis P. Will and Paul M. Nick asked for and received from the judges an extension through Thursday.

Will and Nick said they wanted the first extension to allow for continuity of the evidence presentation before the same grand jury.

However, their motion expressing their rationales for the second extension is not a public document, said Kathi McNabb Welsh, chief deputy clerk of courts.

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