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Roger Bouchard for Judge -- 4/17/26 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It is seven twenty nine right now. I think above
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  Speaker 1: out there. Top of the hour. Next hour, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: Jack Windsor from the Hoigh Press Network at eight thirty
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  Speaker 1: and right now joining the fifty five KRSSEY Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Is he there, Sean McMahon, No, I got a finger
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  Speaker 1: held up. He's kind of waving at me. I know
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  Speaker 1: somebody is online anyway. That's someone is Roger Bouchard. He's
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  Speaker 1: running for judge here in Hamilton County criminal Defense Atorney.
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  Speaker 1: He is solo practitioner. He's been out for twenty three years.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for the green light of the phone
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  Speaker 1: to be connected and kind of puzzling over why it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you talking to? See I'm interrupting Shawn while
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to talk to I guess Roger don't know anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Real quick here, one of remind folks school levies are
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  Speaker 1: on the upcoming primary ballot, and there are quite a
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  Speaker 1: few of them, and I think that's a nefarious thing
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  Speaker 1: to do is putting a school levee on the primary ballot,
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  Speaker 1: because of course those behind the levees realize that only
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  Speaker 1: people that are affiliated with trying to pass the levee.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to show up, another reason to actually go
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  Speaker 1: out and vote. Primaries are so critically important, but when
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  Speaker 1: you're asking, and some of them are a large ask
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the size of the school levees, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them have shifted over to income tax levees.
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  Speaker 1: So we got this big fear of our property tax
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  Speaker 1: bills going up. But if you're going to take one
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  Speaker 1: and a half percent of income or x percent of
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  Speaker 1: your property value, at least you have three years of
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  Speaker 1: known property taxes until they do a reassessment. Your salary
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  Speaker 1: may increase dramatically next year, which means if they're taking
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  Speaker 1: one point five percent of your income, then you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be paying more for these schools. Bottom line is,
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  Speaker 1: keep your eyes peeled for school levees, whether you're former
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  Speaker 1: against them. But if you're against them, then this is
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  Speaker 1: really a strong motivation to show up. Joining me now,
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  Speaker 1: Roger Bouchard, Roger, welcome to the port program. It's a
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  Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on today, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sure, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: You are running for judge here in Hamilton County Municipal Court.
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  Speaker 2: Judge.
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  Speaker 1: If I got that correct, as common please court common please,
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  Speaker 1: I apologize, I'm looking at the words in front of
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  Speaker 1: my face, sir, and I apologize for sounding like an idiot,
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  Speaker 1: but I am anyway, So my listeners can go to
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  Speaker 1: your website. Let's start out of the gate. Let them
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  Speaker 1: know about that Bouchard b O U C char D four.
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  Speaker 1: That's for as opposed to the number four judge dot
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  Speaker 1: com makes perfect sense. Now, your background was just going
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  Speaker 1: over that, and you know as a litigation attorney, and
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  Speaker 1: you know the difference between a trial attorney and a
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  Speaker 1: litigation attorney. I was a litigation attorney, which means I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do a whole lot of trial work, but I
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in a courtroom when I
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  Speaker 1: was practiced in law. You've been a solo practitioner criminal
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  Speaker 1: defense attorney for twenty three years. You have spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time in court. And the only reason I
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  Speaker 1: emphasize that because you know it and I know it,
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  Speaker 1: but for people that are not familiar with it, it
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  Speaker 1: is really important to spend a lot of time in
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  Speaker 1: a court if you want to be a judge, it
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  Speaker 1: gives you the groundwork, the experience, you know, what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: Some people run for judges that don't have any courtroom experience.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not not only here, but in Warren County, Claremonunt County,
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  Speaker 2: all over southwest Ohio and the common pleas and municipal courts.
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  Speaker 2: So kind of get the whole dam it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you, Roger, what is motivating you
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  Speaker 1: to run? I always suspect that some people are motivated
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  Speaker 1: to run for office because they see problems with the
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  Speaker 1: system or they think they can do it better. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just curious in your motivations and to the extent you
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  Speaker 1: have seen over your twenty three years of experience problems
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  Speaker 1: with the judiciary generally speaking, what are they and what
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  Speaker 1: do you hope to do to transform it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a born and raised Westsider from Saint Catharine,
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  Speaker 2: Saint x Through Xavier. I see what's I see our
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  Speaker 2: city on the news on the national news for the
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  Speaker 2: wrong reasons. And I have friends who are in establishments,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the banks, and so I'll be having
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  Speaker 2: my fundraiser on May seventh, that had to close on
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  Speaker 2: opening day. Things like this consistent crime throughout the city
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  Speaker 2: and I want to be a part of the pix
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  Speaker 2: on that. Well, my go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I just get my perception of the current problem we
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  Speaker 1: face here is.
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  Speaker 2: This soul.
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  Speaker 1: I just call it woke reality. People are not being
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  Speaker 1: held accountable for the crimes they commit. Slap on the hand,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not even prosecuting. You know, the revolving door of
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  Speaker 1: the justice system. It's regularly referred to. You get in
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  Speaker 1: front of a judge who's soft on crime, even though
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  Speaker 1: you've got a rap sheet ten miles long, they still
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  Speaker 1: treat you lightly and with kid gloves. People are not
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  Speaker 1: getting the warning shot, that cautionary tale. Jimmy got locked
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  Speaker 1: up for six months or ten years or whatever because
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  Speaker 1: he broke the law. I don't want to be Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: and get locked up, so I'm not going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a critical component of the criminal justice system meeting
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  Speaker 1: out punishment as a deterrence to the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that to be a problem or do
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  Speaker 1: you think judges are tough enough on crime in Hamilton County?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would say that they really haven't been because
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  Speaker 2: the crime is rising, and the repercussions of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the criminals aren't as bad as with the law
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  Speaker 2: states it can be. People often are getting the minimum sentences.
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  Speaker 2: People are getting our bonds on crimes that you know
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  Speaker 2: definitely need a cash bond. People are out walking about
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  Speaker 2: that shouldn't be. So this has to be addressed.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with you all day long on that,
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  Speaker 1: and we can go over multiple illustrations of it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pause.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring Roger Bouchard back. Talk with him a few
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  Speaker 1: more minutes about his campaign, how people can help out,
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  Speaker 1: and his perception and what his perception is of the law.
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  Speaker 1: Is he a judicial activist kind of person if he
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  Speaker 1: gets elected or is he going to conform to the
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  Speaker 1: letter of the law. That's really a critical question from
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  Speaker 1: talk station. You got choices for judge coming up the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming elections, and of course one of them Roger Bouchard,
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  Speaker 1: who's joined the fifty five KRC morning show this and apologies,
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  Speaker 1: Roger apparently caught you off guard. Someone had told you
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  Speaker 1: that this interview had been canceled because Joe Strecker's father
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  Speaker 1: had passed away, and we have no idea who that
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  Speaker 1: person is that you apparently talked to, Roger. So hope
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  Speaker 1: you didn't catch it too off guard this morning. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're able to join us and get through
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  Speaker 1: our conversation about your efforts to become a Hamilton County
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  Speaker 1: Common Police judge. Of course, you obviously have a well
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated criminal defense attorney background of twenty three years, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of courtroom experience, and going back to the whole
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  Speaker 1: issue of maybe people judges of course being too soft
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  Speaker 1: on crime. You know, I would think that as a
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  Speaker 1: criminal defense attorney you would sort of like the idea
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  Speaker 1: that they're really soft on crime on Hamilton County because
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  Speaker 1: that had to benefit your clients. But that doesn't sound
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  Speaker 1: like when I look at your website, Bouchard for Judge
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  Speaker 1: dot com, that's the approach you're going to take if
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting on the bench. Can you sort of explain
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  Speaker 1: that away?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Sure, So as a criminal defense attorney, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we try to help, you know, our clients if
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  Speaker 2: they if they have been wronged, either by the police
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  Speaker 2: or by the court system. You know, we try to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that they're afforded, you know, the justice they deserve. Now,
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  Speaker 2: having said that, when we're talking about the crime that's
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  Speaker 2: happening here in Cincinnati, we're talking about people not wanting
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  Speaker 2: to come to Cincinnati because they're scared to go downtown.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about people who don't want to go to
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  Speaker 2: the Reds games night Reds games because they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to walk back to their cars. It's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot different atmosphere than the type of uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the criminal law that I mostly practice, which
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  Speaker 2: is ov i you know, domestic filence type of things. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So that's all on that note. So it's the violent
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  Speaker 2: crimes here in the city have they have to stop,
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  Speaker 2: right and nothing's happening is getting worse, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: speaking with people activists in the community, it doesn't seem
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  Speaker 2: like the kids you see to be you know, in
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  Speaker 2: large mostly perpetrating a lot of these you know, crimes
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  Speaker 2: and uncomfortable situations around the city. They're not being punished.
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  Speaker 2: They don't see any repercussions, they get into a dull
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  Speaker 2: court and then they'll let right back out.
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  Speaker 1: That's true now, is that you know, as a judge,
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  Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: police have to do their work to hand it over
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  Speaker 1: the prosecutor's office who comes in front of you and
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  Speaker 1: argues their case. If one of the other legs of
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  Speaker 1: the criminal justice system, the prosecutor's office with the police
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  Speaker 1: aren't in line with dealing with I think one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest problems juvenile crime, which is escalating with these
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  Speaker 1: street takeovers and social media and all that. If they're
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  Speaker 1: not willing to go after these young people, then your
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  Speaker 1: hands are kind of tied. I mean, this this problem
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  Speaker 1: that we're facing the city same most notably with juvenile crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Se is that transcend the judiciary?
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  Speaker 2: It well, it does, and it seems that it is
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  Speaker 2: throughout the country, and there is always so much you
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  Speaker 2: can do. And the you know, the parents of these
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  Speaker 2: juveniles are allowed to blame just as much as the
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  Speaker 2: juvenile because it starts at home, and you know, if
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  Speaker 2: the parents aren't taking care of business at home, then
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  Speaker 2: we have what we have. So these juveniles get in
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  Speaker 2: trouble and then when they reached h of eighteen, they're
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  Speaker 2: not They're not getting bonds that keep them locked up
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  Speaker 2: to keep them off the street. They're getting too much mercy.
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  Speaker 2: So we have what we have currently going on in
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  Speaker 2: the city, which is this high crime rate. Municipal court
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  Speaker 2: judges set bonds that are so low are our own
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  Speaker 2: recognizance that they know it's a criminal cmmient, they're right
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  Speaker 2: back out, so you know, kind of tie the hands
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  Speaker 2: of the judges that are you know, sitting the bonds.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting right back out. We don't want that to
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  Speaker 2: happen any longer now. Of course, in common please, the
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  Speaker 2: common police judges don't have control over you know, the
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  Speaker 2: bonds until there's an indictment. So a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: falls on the municipal court judges at arrangements when they
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  Speaker 2: set the bonds. But once they are indicted, the common
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  Speaker 2: police judge can set bonds accordingly to the crime. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what I plan on doing, fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: And are would you describe yourself as a judicial activist
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  Speaker 1: or an interpreter of the law as written?
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  Speaker 2: Interpreter of the law is written.
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  Speaker 1: There you go the right answer for me anyway, Roger,
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  Speaker 1: Judicial activism is a genuine problem. So are you run?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know there is no R or D
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  Speaker 1: or I or L or whatever after a judicial candidate's
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  Speaker 1: name on the ballot. Are you running on the Republican
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  Speaker 1: side of the Democrat side? Have you sought an endorsement
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  Speaker 1: from either party? And do you have any endorsements from
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  Speaker 1: the parties.
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  Speaker 2: I have not been endorsed as of yet by the
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party, but I will be running as a Republican. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think that speaks volumes in and of itself, considering
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  Speaker 1: the left is typically woke judicial activists and soft on crime.
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  Speaker 1: I think that answers a lot of questions for our
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  Speaker 1: listeners as well. Who I will refer again to your website,
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  Speaker 1: Bouchardford Judge dot com. You can help him out. You
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  Speaker 1: can contribute. You can read his bio, learn about his
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  Speaker 1: background in his history, and consider him for the judicial
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  Speaker 1: candidate the judicial spot that he's running for Hamilton County
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  Speaker 1: common Please, it's an important role. Roger Bouchard, it's been
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best as you approach the election,
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  Speaker 1: and hope you uh hope you do well.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much to say for your time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's been my pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the morning show is all about, to
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  Speaker 1: talk to folks like you because these are elections have consequences, dammit.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to get people getting to get out to the polls.
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  Speaker 1: My brothers, good luck, sure thing, have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Butshard for Judge dot com. You check them out, figure out, folks.
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