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Judge Kicked Off the Bench for Gross Misconduct. She Blames Sleep Apnea and Menopause

Posted on October 22, 2022

By: Drew Scofield , Morgan Trau

Posted at 1:37 PM, Oct 18, 2022

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme Court issued an opinion removing Judge Pinkey S. Carr from her Cleveland Municipal Court bench where she has served for more than a decade due to her more than 100 incidents of misconduct going back several years.

“The way she scolded me, yelled at me, I was often mocked, laughed at,” Minnyawn Burkhalter, a Cleveland woman, said.

Burkhalter is one of the dozens of Clevelanders to accuse Judge Pinkey Carr of misconduct during her hearings. Burkhalter says the judge ignored her evidence in a bankruptcy case

“I felt almost less than human, honestly and I felt hopeless about it,” she added.

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