The case against former Cuyahoga County Judge Leslie Celebrezze is on pause after Judge Lauren Moore recused herself on Wednesday.
Moore recused herself because she is a colleague of the defendant.
Celebrezze, first elected to the bench in 2008, pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of tampering with evidence in December 2025.
She was accused of manually assigning herself to a case in 2023, allegedly entering that she was randomly assigned to it, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's office.
Last year, a federal grand jury subpoena delivered to the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court showed that investigators were looking into Celebrezze and her ties to a court-appointed receiver.
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