Ashli Ford's attorney tries to banish local judges, stifle free press
Pattakos asks Ohio Supreme Court to disqualify local judges from podcaster's criminal cases; skewers StayTunedSandusky
SANDUSKY — Attorney Peter Pattakos believes in the power of the press—no doubt—and he purports to be a fierce advocate of the First Amendment.
But when his commitment to freedom of the press begins to crowd his desperate need for attention, his need to be in the limelight, Pattakos shows his true colors. In an “Affidavit of Disqualification” Pattakos filed with the Ohio Supreme Court last week he comes off as a self-serving, unprincipled hack whose support for press freedom ends at the pointy end of his nose.
The affidavit is copied below for your convenience. It’s aimed at throwing the entire Erie County judiciary off his client, Ashli Ford’s, criminal cases. In legal circles, experts would not even conclude this filing to have enough legal foundation to be called a “Hail Mary.” Pattakos and Ford are continuing the losing argument that Ford is the victim of two liars—her ex-husband and her ex-friend—and a vast conspiracy of all judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers in Erie County. Everyone’s out to get her, he contends.
Ashli Ford is too big for Erie County; she’s too influential, too smart and too important to be investigated, arrested or tried by anyone in Erie County. There’s no judge, no prosecutor, nor any police officer in the entire county who is good enough, or honest enough to handle Ashli Ford, according to Peter. Everyone must be removed, he told the Supreme Court.
