Pictured are Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh ( in Black suit), Douglas Prade and Dr. Margo Prade
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief
(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
AKRON, Ohio-The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Akron police capt. Douglas Prade can remain free until it decides whether it will hear his appeal of a Ninth District Court of Appeals decision issued last month that reversed a Summit County trial court ruling that in 2013 freed him from prison as he served 15 years of a life sentence for the murder of ex-wife Margo Prade, a popular Akron medical doctor.
Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh, who fought against the high court's order for a stay from prison of Prade and is internationally known and a hard-nose prosecutor, particularly on the murders of women and others, told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, that the fight for justice for Margo Prade is far from over.
Walsh said that "we will continue to seek justice for Dr. Margo Prade and her family."
Akron is a city some 30 miles south of Cleveland and the native home of NBA basketball icon and Miami Heat power forward LeBron James.
Douglas Prade, now 67, was convicted in 1998 of murdering Margo Prade, 41 at her death and a well respected doctor slated at the time to marry a local attorney.
The popular Black doctor was found dead outside of her medical office in her mini-van in November 1997. She was shot six times and had a bite mark on her arm, the coroner said.
Douglas Prade has two daughters with Margo Prade.
Douglas Prade served 15 years in prison of a life sentence until last year when Summit County common pleas retired visiting judge Judy Hunter exonerated him on DNA evidence. At issue was a bite mark that prosecutors say proved Prade was the killer.
Prade's lawyers argued at trial that prosecutors' evidence was circumstantial and could not link the former police captain to the murder of his former wife. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
