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    Richey appointed new lawyer, visiting judge

    A new attorney and visiting judge has been appointed to Kenneth Richey who is facing two counts each of retaliation, violating a protection order and tampering with evidence.

    According to Gary Lammers, Putnam County prosecutor, Richey’s new attorney is Greg Meyers, Ohio Public Defender’s Office, and visiting judge is Dale Crawford, Franklin County.

    Putnam County Common Pleas Court Judge Keith Schierloh was disqualified from participating in further court proceedings. A trial date was originally scheduled for the end of this month, but was vacated to allow the visiting judge and attorney to review the case, Lammers said.

    A grand jury previously charged Richey with five counts, including three counts of retaliation, a felony of the third degree, one count violating a protection order and one count tampering with evidence.

    According to court documents, a Putnam County resident who wished to remain anonymous received a Facebook Live video with Richey making verbal threats against Former Putnam County Common Pleas Court Judge Randall Basinger and said he would kill the man who he said “took his life away.”

    The video was turned over to the prosecutor by Putnam County Sheriffs Office and an arrest warrant was made. A warrant was issued from Franklin County for Richey on Sept. 27 and he was booked into the Putnam County Jail on a $500,000 bond.

    Richey was prosecuted in 1986 on charges of aggravated murder, arson and child endangerment in the death of Cynthia Collins, 2, in Columbus Grove, who died in an apartment fire. In 1987, he was found guilty and sentenced to death row.

    He had dual British-U.S. citizenship, and the case received international attention in places where the death penalty is not allowed. A letter against his execution was signed by more than 100 members of the British Parliament and the late Pope John Paul II.

    Richey spent 21 years in prison, most of the sentence on death row. His conviction was overturned on appeal, as the court was concerned with how his defense handled the case.

    Richey plead guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter and was credited with time served and released.

    After his release, he returned to Scotland for a short period and then returned to the U.S. where he moved to Mississippi. While living there, he verbally threatened Basinger in 2012. He was arrested and indicted on a single charge of retaliation, a third-degree felony. He was convicted and given a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

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    New charges against Richey for threats vs. former Putnam County judge

    OTTAWA — Kenneth Richey’s long-running vendetta against a former Putnam County judge has him facing felony charges and another possible trip to prison.

    Richey, 55, was indicted Wednesday by a Putnam County grand jury on 12 counts of retaliation, four counts of violation of a protection order and one count of tampering with evidence. All the charges are third-degree felonies.

    Richey was previously on Ohio’s death row from charges connected to the 1986 death of a Columbus Grove 2-year-old girl in a fire. He is an inmate at the Putnam County jail and is awaiting trial on similar charges connected to alleged social media threats he made against former Putnam County Common Pleas Court Judge Randall Basinger.

    The Columbus man verbally threatened Basinger, who was a prosecutor on his case, in 2012 and was convicted of a single count of retaliation, a third-degree felony. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

    A grand jury in November 2019 charged Richey with three counts of retaliation, felonies of the third degree, one count violating a protection order and one count tampering with evidence.

    A trial was previously scheduled for March but was postponed after Richey’s former attorney took a new position. A new trial date was scheduled for July 20

    According to court documents, a Putnam County resident received a Facebook Live video with Richey making verbal threats against Basinger and said he would kill the man who he said “took his life away.”

    Putnam County Sheriff Brian Siefker said Thursday the allegations behind the newest charges filed against Richey are the result of a thorough investigation by a special prosecutor assigned to the case by the Ohio Attorney General’s office.

    The prosecutor “went back through some Facebook posts and found more threats” that Richey had made against Basinger, Siefker said.

    Richey was prosecuted in 1986 on charges of aggravated murder, arson and child endangerment in the death of Cynthia Collins, 2, in Columbus Grove, who died in an apartment fire. In 1987, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. Richey spent 21 years in prison before his conviction was overturned on appeal. He pleaded guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter and was credited with time served and released.

    While living in Mississippi in 2012, he verbally threatened Basinger for the first time.

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    Kenneth Richey trial set for Monday in Putnam County

    OTTAWA, Ohio — A 55-year-old Columbus man who went back to jail on retaliation charges after spending 21 years on Ohio’s death row is scheduled to go to trial next Monday in Putnam County Commons Pleas Court.

    Kenneth Richey, a native of Scotland with dual citizenship in the United States, has 17 third-degree felony charges against him, mostly retaliation but also multiple counts of violating a protection order, and one count of tampering with evidence, according to the court’s online database.

    He recently filed a request with the court for a new judge to hear his case, a new public defender to represent him, and a change of venue. Each request is pending.

    Visiting Judge Dale Crawford of Franklin County Common Pleas Court and attorney Gregory Meyers of the Ohio Public Defender’s Office were appointed to the case in February to replace Judge Keith Schierloh of Putnam County Commons Pleas Court and Alex Treece, respectively.

    Judge Crawford did not respond to a request for an interview about Richey’s effort to get him removed.

    Richey has accused him of bias, pointing out he was the same judge who presided over a similar 2012 case. Putnam County’s online court database confirms Judge Crawford was indeed the presiding judge in that case.

    Mr. Meyers had no comment. Richey has accused him of failing to represent him adequately and not being accessible enough to him.

    Richey was taken into custody in the fall after investigators believed he had published threats on Facebook in September of 2019 against Randall Basinger, an assistant Allen County prosecutor.

    Mr. Basinger was a judge for more than 30 years before going to work for that office on a part-time basis, first as an elected Putnam County Common Pleas judge in 1986 and later in the general jurisdiction court until 2016, where he heard both civil and criminal cases for years. During part of that time, he was a visiting judge for 20 Ohio counties, and sat as an appellate judge on 200 cases in the 8th and 11th District Courts of Appeal.

    He was still working as a judge in 2012 when Richey pleaded guilty to a retaliation charge that was filed after authorities believed Richey had issued a death threat against him.

    That threat, according to authorities, was made over the telephone. Richey’s guilty plea in that case resulted in a three-year prison sentence.

    In a victim statement prior to Richey’s 2012 sentencing, Mr. Basinger claimed Richey had made nine threats over 25 years against him as of then, as well as threats to other people.

    In his defense, Richey claimed past comments were taken out of context and that at least one made to Mr. Basinger was simply a drunken prank.

    Mr. Basinger also was an assistant Putnam County prosecutor in 1986 when Richey was charged with setting a fire that killed 2-year-old Cynthia Collins in Columbus Grove, Ohio.

    Richey was sentenced to death, but — in 2008, after more than two decades on death row — a federal appeals court overturned the conviction because of problems it identified with arson evidence.

    The court ordered a new trial in Putnam County. But Richey pleaded no contest and was convicted of attempted involuntary manslaughter, child endangerment, and breaking and entering. He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, given credit for time served, and released.

    Mr. Basinger said Monday he will “have no comment until the trial is concluded.”

    Judge Schierloh recused himself in February, citing a decades-long working relationship with Mr. Basinger.

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    With trial next week, Richey rails against Putnam County justice system in letters

    In the week prior to his jury trial for allegedly threatening a former Putnam County prosecutor who contributed to a conviction that landed him on Ohio’s death row 33 years ago, Kenneth Richey has made numerous allegations about that county’s “corrupt” legal system.

    Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday morning in Putnam County Common Pleas Court in three separate cases against Richey, all of which revolve around threats he allegedly made against former prosecutor and judge Randall Basinger.

    Basinger was an assistant prosecutor in Putnam County who assisted in the 1987 trial in which Richey was convicted of aggravated murder and aggravated arson in the death of 2-year-old Cynthia Collins in a June 30, 1986, apartment fire in Columbus Grove.

    Richey spent more than 20 years on Ohio’s death row before being freed when a federal judge ruled he had not received adequate legal representation at trial. A new trial was ordered. Richey ultimately accepted a deal from prosecutors that called for him to be sentenced to time already served and to leave jail a free man.

    In the years since, Richey has been in and out of trouble with the law. On several occasions, he allegedly made threats to Basinger. Monday’s trial is scheduled to address three of those alleged incidents.

    In letters written by Richey and obtained Thursday by The Lima News, Richey alleged incompetence on the part of his court-appointed attorney and cited unsubstantiated cases of “corruption” on the part of Judge Dale Crawford, the visiting judge from Franklin County who will preside over his case.

    Richey, in a letter to Crawford dated Jan. 18 of this year, also requested a change in venue for his upcoming trial.

    “The publicity in this county and surrounding area over the years has been immense and made me well known and even hated. A fair and impartial jury in this case would be impossible in Putnam County,” Richey wrote.

    “Putnam County corruption will be exposed. … Abusing your public positions of power seems to be a favorite pastime of Putnam County officials. As an honorably discharged Marine who served for this country, I am truly disgusted!” the letter concluded.

    The motion was denied by the judge.

    In a June 12 letter to Attorney Greg Meyer, Richey alleged Meyer had violated his Sixth Amendment rights by not providing an adequate defense. He said Meyer should have filed motions to separate the counts in each case — which allegedly took place on three separate occasions — and to have individual trials for each case.

    “I feel like I am being screwed over again and about to be railroaded,” Richey wrote to his attorney. “The state hates the fact that they lost the Death Row case against me and were made to look like idiots. They want revenge and will try every wrongful thing they can to convict me.”

    In a letter to the Putnam County Clerk of Courts dated June 25, Richey asked that Meyer be removed from the case. In a separate letter to the clerk, Richey filed a motion to request that Crawford “… be replaced with another judge on the grounds that Judge Crawford is bias (sic), due to the fact that he (1) presided over a similar case of mine back in 2012 in which he convicted me; (2) … has been noted as being corrupt, dishonest, unfair, improper and unjust, as has been documented in the book ‘Checkmate,’ by Steven Kraus, whom I plan on calling as a defense witness; and (3) Judge Crawford and Judges Basinger and Schierloh (Putnam County Common Pleas Court Judge Keith) are all friends…. Such improprieties cannot be tolerated.”

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    Richey guilty of threats against public official

    A Putnam County jury on Tuesday found a former death row inmate guilty of making threats against a former county prosecutor and judge.

    Jurors deliberated for just 90 minutes before determining that Kenneth Richey made unlawful threats against a former Putnam County Assistant Prosecutor Randall Basinger and found him guilty of four counts of retaliation, felonies of the third degree.

    The third-degree felony charges carry a maximum prison sentence of three years each. Richey will be sentenced Aug. 14.

    The state wrapped up its case against Richey before noon Tuesday by calling Basinger to the witness stand. The former prosecutor and judge became emotional at times while discussing what he perceived as credible threats against himself and his family that were made by Richey on four specific occasions in 2019.

    Basinger’s voice cracked when discussing a Sept. 23 threat by Richey.

    “I had to tell my children that Kenneth Richey was threatening to kill their children,” he said. The former prosecutor showed tinges of anger when recalling death threats contained in a Facebook Live video where Richey is heard to say “… that mother-(expletive) who took my life is gonna die; he and his family.”

    Basinger also testified that a letter from 1986 while Richey was an inmate in the Putnam County jail was intercepted by jail authorities and “stated that he wanted to kill me … wanted to hire someone to kill me … so I would rot in hell.”

    As a result of those threats, Basinger said he took firearm training and obtained a concealed carry permit in addition to beefing up his home surveillance system in an effort to keep himself and his family safe.

    Richey was convicted in 2012 of making threats against Basinger and served a three-year prison term for the offenses. The allegations in the most recent case allege that on or about June 8, June 9, June 14 and Sept. 23 of 2019 Richey made Facebook Live recordings intended to intimidate and threaten Basinger. Jurors heard portions of those recordings during the trial.

    Another witness testified long distance — from Mississippi — via a Zoom conferencing call. Karen Charves Richey, Kenneth Richey’s ex-wife, recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus and Judge Dale Crawford allowed her remote testimony in the name of the health and safety of all persons involved in the trial.

    The woman said her ex-husband had on more than one occasion referred to Basinger as “the man who destroyed his life.”

    In May of this year Richey was formally charged with 12 counts of retaliation, four counts of violation of a protection order and one count of tamping with evidence. Prior to the start of the trial Prosecutor Micah Alt dismissed the protection order charge, and several other counts were dismissed by Judge Dale Crawford after the state had rested its case.

    Citing Ohio case law, Crawford said eight of the counts of retaliation against Richey were the result of alleged threats against Basinger’s children and grandchildren. Because of the language contained in the indictment and due to the fact that Basinger’s family members could not be considered “public servants,” the judge dismissed those counts. Also dismissed was a tampering with evidence count due to a question of in what venue the alleged crime was committed.

    Crawford called the indictment poorly crafted.

    Prior to the beginning of jury deliberations, Defense Attorney Greg Meyers — in his closing statements — said the state had failed to prove their case “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

    “Did (Richey) purposely utter a threat against Randall Basinger, expecting that that threat would travel up to Putnam County? Maybe. But maybe is not enough. You can’t convict on a hunch, or on the fact that he’s done this before,” Meyers said.

    Richey showed no emotion when the guilty verdicts were read.

    In 1987 Richey was convicted in the death of 2-year-old Cynthia Collins in an apartment fire the previous year in Columbus Grove. A three-judge panel sentenced him to death, where he spent more than 20 years before being granted a new trial after a federal court ruled he had not received adequate legal representation.

    Basinger was the lead prosecutor in that case.

    https://www.limaohio.com/news/419290...ublic-official
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    SEX ABUSE CLAIMS Ex-Death Row Scot Kenny Richey quizzed by cops over claims he molested nine-year-old girl

    EX-Death Row con Kenny Richey was quizzed by US cops over claims he molested a girl of nine.

    The Scot, 55, was accused of sexual abuse and climbing into her bed naked.

    It’s also claimed Richey forced the youngster to watch porn and drink alcohol.

    Details emerged after he was jailed for 12 years earlier this month for making death threats against a judge.

    It was claimed he touched the girl inappropriately in a shower in Tupelo, Mississippi, four years ago.

    But Edinburgh-born Richey denied the allegations.

    And there wasn’t enough evidence for the girl’s parents to press serious charges.

    Her mum said: “I was in shock when she told me. But he was never going to admit to any of it. Police said they only had evidence he was grooming her and fondled her.

    “They believed his b******t. My girl’s suffered from nightmares.”

    Richey was sentenced to death in 1986 over the fire death of a two-year-old girl in Ohio but was eventually freed in 2008.

    https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/new...h-row-scot-us/
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    Former Death Row inmate Kenny Richey plans to appeal his new conviction

    Former Death Row inmate Kenny Richey plans to appeal his conviction for threatening a former judge.

    The Scot was caged for 12 years last month for mouthing off towards Randall Basinger in Facebook rants posted last year.

    But the former US Marine, originally from Edinburgh, has written to the court contesting the “wrongful, misguided and erroneous” verdict, reports the Daily Record.

    In a penciled note, Richey added: “My trial was biased, unfair and rigged from the onset. As was the jury itself.

    “The court failed to provide me with an adequate attorney to properly and effectively represent me.”

    Richey claims he tried to fire his attorney, Greg Myers, before the hearing, accusing the lawyer of failing to interview witnesses, gather evidence or provide details of the prosecution’s case.

    The 55-year-old also criticises Judge Dale Crawford for denying him the chance to swap lawyers and telling the jury of his “past acts” going back 37 years.

    He signs off by referencing recent civil unrest sweeping the States.

    Richey added: “I can see why people in this country have been rioting in protests against the injustices committed by the law of America.

    “This case is just another instance of corruption and abuse of power by the law.”

    Basinger was the prosecutor who secured a murder conviction in 1987 against Richey over the death of a two-year-old girl in a fire in Columbus Grove, Ohio.

    Richey was sentenced to death for killing Cynthia Collins, who died in the blaze at her mother’s apartment in June 1986.

    He was freed in 2008 after entering a “no contest” plea to manslaughter, child endangering and breaking and entering in a plea bargain.

    https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news...kenny-18889713
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