Convicted Ohio judge gets sentenced to six months in jail

CINCINNATI (AP) — A suspended juvenile court judge has been sentenced to six months in local jail for a felony conviction of unlawful interest in a public contract.

Judge Tracie Hunter was convicted in October. She was accused of getting documents related to her brother’s juvenile court employment that she wasn’t supposed to have. She faced up to 18 months in prison.

More than a dozen witnesses, including lawyers, ministers and friends, took the stand today in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati. They asked for justice and for Hunter to be spared jail time.

Prosecutors filed a memo with the court Thursday asking that Judge Norbert Nadel sentence Hunter to “substantial” prison time rather than the probation often given for nonviolent, low-level felonies.