Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy J. McGinty stepped down Thursday from hearing the multiple murder trial of Anthony Sowell -- citing a potential conflict with his own well-known efforts to reform criminal justice practices.
McGinty said in a one-paragraph letter to Administrative Judge Eileen Gallagher that his own "public policy reform efforts" might lead to a conflict in hearing the high-profile trial.
Sowell had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 11 counts of aggravated murder and other charges last week after police investigators in October found the remains of 11 women at his Imperial Avenue home.
A new judge will get the case today, Gallagher said. She said she accepted McGinty's recusal from the case as standard procedure when any judge claims a conflict.
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