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Sentencing, trials, arraignments in Cuyahoga County: Court Watch

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- These are some of the cases moving through Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court this week.

Steven Barrett, 33, of Euclid: Arraignment today on charges of illegal use of a minor in nude material, voyeurism and possessing criminal tools. He's accused of watching two women shower at his home in the 700 block of East 254th Street. Police searched the house and found a peephole. Officers seized computers, cameras, video cameras and hundreds of CDs and DVDs, then found more than 20 photographs of nude girls.

Zane Johnson, 49, of Cleveland: Trial begins today on charges of aggravated murder and having a gun after a felony conviction. Johnson is accused in the Oct. 14 fatally shooting of 23-year-old Kenneth James on East 65th Street in Cleveland.

Emmanuel Gilmore, 22, of Cleveland: Trial begins today on charges of aggravated murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery. Prosecutors say Gilmore thought that 34-year-old Jerome Williams had a lot of money and fatally shot him April 20 at his Tuscora Avenue home.

Charles Dubose, 55, of Cleveland: Arraignment Tuesday on charges of felonious assault and firing a gun near a building. He's accused of shooting an 11-year-old girl in the chest June 10 in the 700 block of East 118th Street, where children had been playing near his car. "He yelled to the juveniles to get away from his car," prosecutor's spokesman Ryan Miday said, "then fired a shot from his porch in the direction of the children, who were running down the street." The bullet struck the girl's ribs and liver.

Paul Prayear, 39, of Cleveland: Arraignment Tuesday on charges of murder and felonious assault. He's accused in the June 8 fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Mario Thomas during a fight in the 4100 block of East 114th Street.

Deandre Perkins, 33, of Cleveland: Arraignment Tuesday on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, felonious assault and having a gun after a felony conviction. He's accused in the robbery and fatal shooting June 15 of 31-year-old Adam Tate outside the B & M Bar-B-Que on Shaw Avenue. Tate ran from the robber and was shot in the back.

Thomas Kosarik, 52, of Cleveland: Arraignment Tuesday on charges of felonious assault and attempted felonious assault. He's accused of having his dog attack a woman and her 8-year-old son June 15 because the woman was doing laundry at 11:45 p.m. in the basement of a duplex in the 9300 block of Yale Avenue. The dog bit the boy on the leg and held on until Kosarik grabbed the dog, which was taken to the Cleveland kennel.

Matzen's Haserot angel

Herman N. Matzen *1861 †1938, was a Danish immigrant to Detroit. He then studied sculpture in Paris and Berlin. From 1885 to 1926 he taught at Cleveland School of Art. He won many commissions to sculpt monuments for local governments. He had done statues of Schiller (Detroit) and Wagner. American germans had great enthusiasm for cultural heroes. The war ended those commissions from the germans. This seated angel leans on an overturned torch as on a cane. There is many stone angels in this graveyard, most stand on top of massive pediments. Matzen’s angel is on a slight red granite one, on which you can easily step upon. It is a statue one can go face to face with. The massive wings are fully opened, and further suggests, that, the angel is enthroned. The torch’s flame is out, and the angel is contemplating judgment, or somberly reflecting upon the deceased.

Karl Bitter, architectural sculptor, 1867-1915

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