A Hamilton County judge on Tuesday shut down former police officer Jacob Goodwin’s push to get out of prison early, ordering him to serve the rest of a 14-year sentence for a series of armed robberies. Prosecutors argued that whatever sympathy Goodwin might have earned from his backstory was wiped out by what they described as troubling behavior behind bars.
Goodwin had asked the court to cut roughly five years from his sentence, but Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christopher McDowell rejected the request at a hearing, citing prosecutors’ claims that Goodwin used his law enforcement training and position to carry out the crimes, as reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
How the robberies unfolded
Prosecutors say Goodwin admitted to a…..