A woman accused of striking a court deputy as she tried to flee detention two weeks ago in Toledo Municipal Court entered not guilty pleas to related charges Thursday morning in Lucas County Common Pleas Court.
Judge Lori Olender kept bond at $100,000 for Kara Rose, 33, of the 200 block of Nevada Avenue, who is charged with first-degree felonious assault and fifth-degree escape for the May 15 incident. Ms. Rose had been sentenced to jail for a misdemeanor theft conviction when she tried to flee the courthouse, but the door she chose led into the judges’ gated parking lot, and she was caught after trying to hide in a garbage bin.
Autumn Adams, who Judge Olender appointed as Ms. Rose’s defense lawyer, asked that Ms. Rose be shifted from the Lucas County jail to the Community Treatment Facility for her pretrial detention. But the judge said she would not normally do that for someone charged with a first-degree felony, and would need strong justification to make an exception…