Lance Mason: Former Cleveland, Ohio, judge pleads guilty in ex-wife’s stabbing death

Lance Mason (left) & murdered wife Aisha Fraser​

Former judge pleads guilty in ex-wife’s stabbing death

A former county judge in Cleveland pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing his ex-wife moments after she had dropped off their two daughters last November. Lance Mason, 51, told a visiting judge in a Cuyahoga County courtroom that he wanted to “take responsibility for my crimes,” adding, “There was no way I was going to let my daughter testify against me.” Mason pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, violating a protection order and grand theft in the slaying of 45-year-old Aisha Fraser. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley refused to dismiss any charges against Mason as part of a ...

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Former Tamworth Dance Teacher Charged With Historical Child Sex Offences

A former dance teacher has been charged with committing a string of sex offences against 10 girls and a boy between 1967 and 1991. Neil Walter Harris, 74, was remanded in custody following a ...

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https://www.heart.co.uk/westmids/news/local/former-tamworth-dance-teacher-charged-3/

Former Birmingham ballet teacher charged with child sex offences

A former dance teacher from Tamworth has been charged with committing a string of sex offences against 10 girls and a boy between 1967 and 1991. Neil Walter Harris, 74, was remanded in custody ...

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https://www.capitalfm.com/birmingham/radio/news/local/birmingham-tamworth-ballet-teacher-child-sex/



Black women and the ugly reality of domestic violence

Last Thanksgiving was a particularly bad holiday for the families of six Black females who died at a time often used to focus on reasons to be grateful. But advocates say domestic violence and assaults against Black women still draw too little attention, outrage and protest. The five women and one teenager who died in a deadly week last November lost their lives at the hands of their husbands, ex-husbands, or boyfriends in different parts of the country. “We are in a crisis and the crisis we often talk about is the external—people outside of our community who seek to ...

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https://www.finalcall.com/artman/pu...d-the-ugly-reality-of-domestic-violence.shtml

 

Former judge pleads guilty in ex-wife's stabbing death

A former county judge in Cleveland pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing his ex-wife moments after she had dropped off their two daughters last November. Lance Mason, 51, told a visiting judge in a Cuyahoga County courtroom that he wanted to "take responsibility for my crimes," adding, "There was no way I was going to let my daughter testify against me." Mason pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, violating a protection order and grand theft in the slaying of 45-year-old Aisha Fraser. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley refused to dismiss any charges against Mason as part of a ...

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Former Cleveland judge pleads guilty in ex-wife’s stabbing death

A former county judge in Cleveland pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing his ex-wife moments after she had dropped off their two daughters last November. Lance Mason, 51, told a visiting judge in a Cuyahoga County courtroom that he wanted to “take responsibility for my crimes,” adding, “There was no way I was going to let my daughter testify against me.” Mason pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, violating a protection order and grand theft in the slaying of 45-year-old Aisha Fraser. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley refused to dismiss any charges against Mason as part of a ...

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https://triblive.com/local/regional/former-cleveland-judge-pleads-guilty-in-ex-wifes-stabbing-death/

 

Former judge pleads guilty in ex-wife's stabbing death

A former county judge in Cleveland pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing his ex-wife moments after she had dropped off their two daughters last November. Lance Mason, 51, told a visiting judge in a Cuyahoga County courtroom that he wanted to "take responsibility for my crimes," adding, "There was no way I was going to let my daughter testify against me." Mason pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, violating a protection order and grand theft in the slaying of 45-year-old Aisha Fraser. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley refused to dismiss any charges against Mason as part of a ...

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Former judge pleads guilty in ex-wife's stabbing death

A former county judge in Cleveland pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing his ex-wife moments after she had dropped off their two daughters last November. Lance Mason, 51, told a visiting judge in a Cuyahoga County courtroom that he wanted to "take responsibility for my crimes," adding, "There was no way I was going to let my daughter testify against me." Mason pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, violating a protection order and grand theft in the slaying of 45-year-old Aisha Fraser. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley refused to dismiss any charges against Mason as part of a ...

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