After two delays in 2023, and a heated conduct hearing in February, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Ohio Supreme Court has suggested that Judge Timothy Grendell face a two-year suspension of his law license.
Attorneys in that office argued in a post-hearing finding last week that Grendell, the Portage-Geauga County probate judge for the past decade, should be temporarily removed due to his botched judgment revolving around a 2020 Geauga County custody case. Grendell has sought a suspended sentence or more lenient punishment.
The Counsel’s decision, as documented
in a 70-page document released Tuesday
, are fair and just, they write, “given [Grendell’s] failure to acknowledge wrongdoing, coupled with the serious nature of the misconduct.”
The attorneys, who both questioned Grendell at the February hearing, based their recommendation on how Grendell handled the case of Grant Glasier and Sally Hartman, whose two teenage sons, Carson and Conner, were later sent to the Portage-Geauga Juvenile Detention for three days for refusing to visit their father, who they said they felt unsafe around.