SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH. (THECOUNT) — Former Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason has been arrested and accused of fatally stabbing a woman Saturday morning at her Shaker Heights home, according to sources.
Mason, who spent nine months in prison in 2014 for viciously beating his then-wife, Aisha Fraser Mason, in front of their children, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder in connection with her death at her Chagrin Boulevard home, the sources revealed.
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The house where the stabbing happened is near where police reported that a Shaker Heights police officer was hit by a car fleeing a domestic violence incident. Shaker Heights police have not responded to multiple messages seeking comment. Cleveland city spokesman Dan Williams also has not responded to messages. source
Mason in August 2014 punched his then-wife 20 times and slammed her head against the dashboard of his car five times, breaking her orbital bone.
The couple’s children were in the back of the car when the attack occurred.
Mason, who previously served in the state legislature, was a sitting Cuyahoga County judge when the attack happened.
Mason was barred by law from ever being a judge again.
Fraser Mason also won a $150,000 judgement in a civil case after suing her ex-husband for damages after the attack.
After Mason’s release from jail, he was hired as Cleveland’s minority business development director.
Last November Cleveland.com wrote that the former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge deserved a second chance. And not just inside Cleveland City Hall.
Mayor Frank Jackson’s decision to give Mason a job after Mason’s early release from prison on wife-beating charges is an astounding snub to hard-working Clevelanders who Jackson says should back him for an unprecedented fourth-term, Cleveland.com wrote in an article at the time.
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Shaker Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city population was 28,448. Shaker Heights is an inner-ring streetcar suburb of Cleveland, abutting the eastern edge of the city’s limits, according to Wikipedia.