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Speaker 1: Larry may Her. Start at the beginning, Larry, what happened?

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Speaker 1: the wife tells you all you need to know. You

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Speaker 1: nine thirty three am, Shaker Heights Police respond to this

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Speaker 1: seventeen thousand block of Sagrin Boulevard for a domestic dispute.

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Speaker 1: Please say, the first officer on seen had a SUV

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Speaker 1: broadsided on the driver's side by the suspect who was

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Speaker 1: trying to escape. Please say, the officer and the suspect

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Speaker 1: we're treated at the hospital for their injuries. Please see

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Speaker 1: former Cuyahoga County Judge. Lance Mason was taken into custody

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Speaker 1: to Joseph Scott Morgan, author of Blood Beneath My Feet,

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Speaker 1: professor of forensics at Jacksonville State JOT. What I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at now is how we're going to prove the case.

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Speaker 1: How can we keep Lance Mason behind bars this time

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Speaker 1: since it didn't work the first time. Well, hopefully none

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Speaker 1: of these same politicians are going to have anything to

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Speaker 1: say about it. But from an evidentiary standpoint, if I

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Speaker 1: think that if this, uh, this, this prior assault can

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Speaker 1: be introduced, you can show this line of connectivity between

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Speaker 1: his behavior and it culminates in not just a single stab,

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Speaker 1: not just a too stabs, but it's an event that

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Speaker 1: involved multiple stab wounds where she is in a restricted area.

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Speaker 1: And this is what we referred to as overkilled. This

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Speaker 1: is generally associated with people that have a tremendous amount

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Speaker 1: of violence, rage, anger, and I suspect, you know, over

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Speaker 1: this period of time, and I've worked in many cases

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Speaker 1: like this, these are some of the most violent. When

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Speaker 1: you're talking about these domestic events like this, I suspect

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Speaker 1: that he had just been just seething over a period

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Speaker 1: of time as he is forced to take his kids

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Speaker 1: at this location. He sees himself as some kind of victim.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you know, you've

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Speaker 1: got these two precious little children that have literally witnessed

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Speaker 1: their mother be slaughtered in front of this house by

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Speaker 1: this man too, Larry Mayhar. Will the state be seeking

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Speaker 1: the death penalty or do we know? The prosecution has

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Speaker 1: not yet stated whether it's going to seek the death penalty.

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Speaker 1: The death penalty is available to the prosecutors since he

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Speaker 1: is charged with both murder and aggravated murder. Aggravated murder

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Speaker 1: in Ohio is approximately what first degree murder is in

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Speaker 1: other jurisdictions. Listen, you are charged with one kind of

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Speaker 1: aggravated murder, one count of murder, one kind of floonious assaft,

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Speaker 1: one count of violating the protection order, one kind of

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Speaker 1: grand theft, and if one kind of floonious assaught. Do

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Speaker 1: you understand the charge is against you? Yes? Do you

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Speaker 1: wish to enter a pleae sir? Not guilty? Court accepts

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Speaker 1: the plea of not guilty. The court will of course

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Speaker 1: have jurisdiction of this case. Mister Mason, Yes, sir, you

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Speaker 1: probably already aware of this, but just so it's on

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Speaker 1: the record. I'm normally down in Stark County Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame area, and I was asked by the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: to handle this case because the judges here in Calga

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Speaker 1: County had recused themselves. You are aware of that, sir, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and I do have that appointment. And is that acceptable

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Speaker 1: to you, sir yes? Shad all right, very good. As

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Speaker 1: it relates to bond, I'm going to accept the recommendations

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Speaker 1: at that bond at five million dollars. Two years after

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Speaker 1: the government let him loose. Let him lose after he

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Speaker 1: slammed her head into the dashboard of a car so

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Speaker 1: badly it broke her orbital bone in her face. She

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Speaker 1: had to have plastic surgery. A judge, in his wisdom

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Speaker 1: allowed this piece of crap, Judge Lance Mason, her former husband,

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Speaker 1: her attacker, out of jail early. He stabs her dad

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Speaker 1: once again with the children watching and hearing the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: May he wrought in hell. Important to listen to victims,

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Speaker 1: to ask them these questions, to assess their risk for

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Speaker 1: potential homicide, because there are services available for them. We

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Speaker 1: do know that domestic violence homicides are predictable and the

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Speaker 1: risk factors are very clear. Access to guns is a

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Speaker 1: significant predictor. Did I mention the two thousand, three hundred

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Speaker 1: live rounds of ammunition? He had, five hundred shot gun slugs,

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Speaker 1: four canisters of smoke grenades, a bulletproof vest, and a

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Speaker 1: Jaguar knife. Okay, that's beside the point. Just one to

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Speaker 1: let you know that, Jancy, you were talking earlier about

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Speaker 1: who supported Judge Mason's early release. Cleveland nineteens Lydia Aspara

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Speaker 1: spoke to one of the more than thirty judges and

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Speaker 1: lawyers who wrote letters of support, and this one now

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Speaker 1: says he regrets it. By all accounts, Lance Mason appeared

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Speaker 1: to be reformed after he beat his wife, so no

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Speaker 1: one who knew him would have ever believed he would

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Speaker 1: have been capable of this. On Lance Mason's Facebook page,

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Speaker 1: anger all directed towards the former judge. Police say Mason

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Speaker 1: stocked his ex wife, Aisha Fraser, stabbed her, killing her

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Speaker 1: in front of their two girls. Since then, horrified friends

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Speaker 1: and strangers have trolled his Facebook page. Attorney Saboutschandra has

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Speaker 1: been trolled too, after he wrote a letter of support

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Speaker 1: for then Judge Mason, a wife beater who spent time

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Speaker 1: in prison. My belief was at the time was that

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Speaker 1: this was a racial conduct on his part for which

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Speaker 1: he felt great remorse, And by phone he explains why

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Speaker 1: he supported him. When you made the decision, you were

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Speaker 1: basing it on the character of the person you knew.

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Speaker 1: At the time, we had a good reputation for being

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Speaker 1: a smart, kind, good tempered judge. And why he now

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Speaker 1: regrets it Lydia, Let's just be clear, I'm not a

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Speaker 1: victim of any kind. I mean, it's his ex wife

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Speaker 1: and his children who are terrible victims in this tragedy.

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Speaker 1: Why I deeply regret that I wrote this letter given

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Speaker 1: what's transpired. I made the best judgment that I could

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Speaker 1: at the time about trying to ensure that his children

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Speaker 1: were not impoverished. The children was Schaundra's focus, and he

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Speaker 1: believed Mason was a changed man. I had run into

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Speaker 1: Judge Mason on the rapid three weeks ago, and he

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Speaker 1: was warm and friend, lean, kind, generous, ask questions about

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Speaker 1: my kids and how they were doing. And now Mason

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Speaker 1: spent many many hours here at the Justice Center being

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Speaker 1: the firm hand against domestic violence. Now it appears he'll

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Speaker 1: be on the other side of the law again. There

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Speaker 1: was something special about her and her community reaction to

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Speaker 1: her death is evidence of that. It is said that

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Speaker 1: you know that you lived a good life when people

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Speaker 1: never stop mentioning your name. Her name will be mentioned

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Speaker 1: for very, very, very very many years we wait as

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Speaker 1: justice and fols Nancy Grace crime story. Signing up goodbye friend,