Judge gets two-years jail for beating wife

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US: LAW is no respecter of anyone once you run afoul of it.

That seems to be what happened in Ohio when a former judge was sentenced to jail for beating his wife.

Judge Patricia Cosgrove sentenced the ex-Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge, Lance Mason, to two years jail for the offences he committed last year.

Mason, 48, it was claimed, hit his wife in the presence of their children who were in the car while driving along Van Aken Boulevard in Ohio.

The visiting Judge Cosgrove read from police report about how the former

judge inflicted injuries on his wife, punching her 20 times and carried out dastardly acts which included beating and hitting her head, about five times, against the car.

The couple had prior separated from each other, but were planning to get back.

Aisha Mason, who intended to take her husband back, had asked Mason to go for counselling as part of the conditions for reunion.

In her judgment, the judge found Mason guilty as he went too far against Aisha with the injuries he inflicted on her while the children were in the car with them.

Said Cosgrove: “There is not one person in this courtroom that doesn’t carry a burden with them.”

“But you don’t take it out on another human being,” the judge said as family members and friends listened to the judgment.

Earlier, specifically last August 13, the former judge pleaded guilty to alleged domestic violence and attempted felony and agreed to go to jail in a deal with authorities.

Mason, who had been suspended by the Ohio Supreme Court from the bar, left his job last September 3, having become a convicted person.

With this conviction, he lost the opportunity to continue to earn his $121,000 pay, which he was entitled to while on suspension.

He can no longer serve as a judge and his continued practice of law would be anchored on the outcome of a disciplinary measure by the highest court in Ohio.

Mason is yet to be off the hook as Aisha had two pending cases against him – divorce and causing her anguish and mental pain.

All those who spoke in court in defence of Mason – three lawyers, sister and religious leaders – portrayed him as a man who couldn’t have done what he did if not for troubling issues in his life which included the death of his parent, failed marriage and a child who was suffering from Down Syndrome illness.

A terribly sorry Mason said: “I make no excuses, I mean I beat my wife in front of my kids.  I mourn the harm I did to my family.”