The Other Paper had an article and here are some excerpts:
...But both Selva's lawyer and the prosecutor from the case agree: Judge Connor was unfairly targeted by the public and politicians...
...Ron Welch, the Franklin County prosecutor who negotiated Selva's plea deal said he disagreed with Connor's ruling but feels the criticism heaped upon the judge is unwarranted...
...A common source of public outrage has been the oft-reported yet erroneous notion that Connor could have given Selva a maximum of 10 years in the pokey. Since he was a first-time offender, Selva could only have received the minimum prison term, which is just one year....
There is another article in the same paper and here are some excerpts:
...O'Reilly didn't just want to raise hell. He wanted Connor, who has been elected and re-elected to the bench, impeached.
"This guy is dangerous, this judge," O'Reilly said during Monday's broadcast. "And you get him just like Al Capone. You get him the way you can get him."
Of course, O'Reilly didn't know what he was talking about—the background of the case, the record of other judges in comparable cases, electoral democracy—but it's not his job to know what he's talking about. There's nothing wrong with celebrity entertainers like O'Reilly or Eminem or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog making ridiculous comments....
....Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, a Republican, had agreed to a plea bargain for Selva, didn't formally request a tougher sentence and didn't object to the one Connor handed down.O'Brien is popular with the state GOP, and lawmakers knew they were going to have a tough time demonizing Connor while letting the prosecutor off the hook....
And a recent poll in the Columbus Dispatch: Here