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Five episodes into the Rocky River investigation, this installment examines the special prosecutor's own investigative memoranda, obtained directly and reviewed in full for the first time on this platform.

The memoranda, addressed to Rocky River Law Director Michael O'Shea and dated August 17 and September 22, 2023, contain a legal analysis under six Ohio statutes: sexual battery (R.C. 2907.03), unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, sexual imposition, importuning, and dereliction of duty. This episode focuses on the sexual battery analysis under R.C. 2907.03(A)(7), which addresses conduct by a person in a position of authority at a school where the victim is a student, and examines the evidentiary basis for the prosecutor's charging determination, including the exclusion of a walk-in witness statement and its intersection with Ohio's mandatory reporting statute, R.C. 2151.421.

The episode also reviews a signed personnel action by Rocky River Police Chief George Lichtman documenting a standards-of-conduct violation, and the personnel record following that finding through the officer's retirement roughly eight months later.

Statutory references: R.C. 149.43 (public records), R.C. 2907.03 (sexual battery), R.C. 2151.421 (mandatory reporting).

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