Cuyahoga County prosecutors said a plea deal with two former East Cleveland police officers is off following a judge’s decision allowing one of the officers to withdraw his guilty plea.
But before sentencing on that charge, Johnson hired a new attorney and argued he did not have a complete picture of the prosecution’s evidence when he pleaded guilty.
“How can you say that Mr. Johnson was advised by counsel to make a knowing, intelligent and voluntary plea?” said attorney Allison Hibbard. “His counsel had not even looked at all of the discovery. Not even close.” Court records identified the informant as George Michael Riley, a former operator of the Arco Recycling plant in East Cleveland.
But prosecutors painted Johnson’s motivation as something else, arguing that the former officer only asked out of the plea deal after prosecutors requested a judge sentence Johnson to prison.
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