CLEVELAND—She’s one of 59 individuals designated in Ohio as a “vexatious litigator”. Now she sits in Cuyahoga County Jail awaiting transport to the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, because she filed a civil rights claim in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

In December 2006, disbarred attorney and former pharmacist Elsebeth Baumgartner of Oak Harbor was sentenced to eight years in prison, essentially for writing e-mails expressing her opinion to an aged retired visiting judge, Richard Markus, 76, who is still sitting on the bench adjudicating politically sensitive matters, assigned by Chief Justice Thomas Moyer although the Ohio Constitution mandated his removal from the bench at age 70.

She was also criminally charged for making alleged defamatory statements against Markus in court filings for a case in which she was representing herself although the law provides for absolute immunity for statements made in such court pleadings.

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