ASHLAND, OHIO – Welcome to Ashland, a city where the laws are stretched, bent, and morphed at the whim of its overlords.  None wield this corrupt power more brazenly than Judge John L. Good.  Styling himself after Björn Ironside, the 9th-century Viking king known for combining brute force with deception, Good runs his courtroom like a plunder expedition.  From his bench, he sends peasants to dungeons (the Ashland County Jail) or levies crippling amercements, forcing victims to beg for mercy in a corrupt, pseudo-Nordic fashion.  Utilizing intimidation, manipulation, perjury, ex-parte communication and abuse of discretion, Good spares few, from accosting dozens of honest Amish to extortionately inflating the fines of innocent travelers and victims of crimes committed by his own jurisdiction.

Judge John L. Good presides over all city traffic citations and misdemeanor cases with an alarming lack of judicial restraint.  Operating more like a self-appointed technical expert than a neutral arbiter, he frequently relies on his own ‘guesstimate’ regarding meteorology and vehicle mechanics rather than certified safety reports.  He, on occasion, will disregard a defendant’s primary language and penalizes standard defensive driving – such as lane changes and braking, by applying arbitrary calculations of vehicle weight and road conditions. This consistent abuse of power and disregard for due process serves only to inflate simple citations in violation of state law that he uses to enhance a huge proportion of the driving offenses that he oversees.

The hypocrisy of Judge John L. Good is on full display in his courtroom. While treating his docket like a, ‘cash cow’ for the municipality, he actively intimidates defendants who refuse to waive their right to a fair, speedy trial. He has mocked them in the past, his face reddening with frustration, before parading individuals through a ‘guilty-until-proven-innocent’ process.  Adopting the persona of a Viking raider, ‘Bjorn Ironside,’ Good embodies the very traits one should not want in a judge: arrogance, poor leadership, and an obsession with pillaging, rather than protecting, the rights of many of the accused.

Whether you live, work, or are just passing through and trying to use the bathroom in the City of Ashland, Ohio, know this: you have entered a ‘cop-land on steroids.’  Which isn’t a bad thing, so long as you don’t ever have to go before ‘Bjorn’.  If you are driving on I-71, you have a high probability of being stopped by a state trooper, or spotted by helicopter radar, regardless of the time, weather, or season. It’s a place where you better hope it’s a sunny day and you’re driving a vehicle that passes the arbitrary, subjective inspection of Judge Good. What you’ll face here isn’t justice, but a degrading, manipulative experiment of sorts, with egregious, twisted applications of the law masked by professional deceit (that hides behind the law).  Pulling off exit 186 places you immediately within a high-density policing zone. With 55 state trooper outposts managing roughly 1,600 troopers statewide, you can expect around 20 troopers in your immediate vicinity at any time. Add to that the 100+ sworn Sheriff’s deputies (roughly 40% of whom are on active patrol) along with the 33-person city police force, and you are surrounded by dozens upon dozens of officers operating within a one-mile radius of you.

The primary arm of the Ashland judicial system is thoroughly compromised, characterized by pervasive corruption spanning prosecutors, court-appointed attorneys, Judges and Judge Good himself.  Victim advocates are also removed to those who need them, while prosecutors routinely fabricate the existence of felonies to conceal police brutality – with Judge Good egging them on. Furthermore, intimidation is directly enabled from the bench, and defense counsel has been either entirely mute or complicit in this systemic, by-design conspiracy in at least one documented case.

The legend of “Bjorn the Great”, otherwise known as Judge John L. Good – continues to this very day. Whether he’s staggering out of Muddy Miser’s, Oak Park Tavery or one Country Club or another, he never lacks a motorcade when he consumes one to0 many. Local police (friends) “offer themselves up” to shadow his red Corvette all the way safely to his driveway, where one time he nearly hit his wife’s yellow Solstice before launching into a drunken tirade.  Despite a private separation (all for the kids), he keeps up the family-man facade until he hits the courtroom or public arena. There, the “Meteorologist Mechanic” reigns supreme, ignoring the law to vent his personal vengeance on defendants. No bond, no license, no mercy—just a judge playing god while the gallery stays silent (well, not all in the gallery).

The systematic abuse of discretion in these cases stems from the arbitrary enhancement of traffic citations. Judge Good routinely upwardly adjusts penalties based on subjective assessments of ‘risk,’ such as time of day, weather conditions, or perceived vehicle instability (e.g., weight and braking capacity). However, the Court lacks the evidentiary basis to make these determinations, as no specific mechanical data for the defendant’s vehicle is ever introduced. By acting as an unqualified expert in meteorology and automotive engineering, the Judge relies on conjecture rather than fact.  This appears to be a revenue-generating scheme designed to inflate the City of Ashland’s coffers under the guise of judicial thoroughness.

AETOS Says:  What’s next?  Will the court begin hiring Walmart Receipt Scanner’s to testify in court as to the psychological standing of the alleged defendant during the time in which they stabbed someone?  Just because you like cars, doesn’t mean you know car’s your highness…

THE BOTTOM LINE

SCUMBAGGED Tip:  Imagine going to court for speeding 12 miles an hour over the speed limit (on a highway, not a school zone), thinking you’re going to get a ticket and be on your way, and instead you are faced with a Judge who views himself as a Viking ruler  that has no clue what the fuck they are talking about that vomits the frontal weight and or backend weight of your minivan, the time it would take for you to stop on a slick road (because he’s also an accident reconstructionist or a forensic engineer) better yet a psychic that can predict the future what-if’s, as opposed to the what reality of your travels really were…  “what if” the car in front of you swerved while you had your blinker on and were adequately switching lanes all while using and abusing the State of Ohio code to maximized his and the cities earnings.  God forbid if you don’t speak English, god forbid if you refuse to waive your right to a fast and speedy trial and absolutely god forbid if you get a court appointed attorney that is running off of the corrupted coffer beast.  You’ve been warned…

TIP OF THE ICEBURG – Judge Good and co.’s corrupted ways can be found outlined below.  He and his friends hiding their social networking connections, his attorney friend not doing his job and the Judge himself retaliating and his bailiff even issuing threats. These are just a few additional examples of Judge John L. Good’s corruptive nature which is far beyond just mere traffic citations. 

• Judge Good and other’s social scrubbing
• Judge Good’s bailiff issues a threat
• Judge Good’s attorney friend “Honaker” exposed
• Judge Good retaliates for his friend