COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court has suspended a Geauga County Probate and Juvenile Court Judge for improperly detaining two teenage brothers who refused to attend a visitation with their father. Timothy J. Grendell is suspended from practicing law for 18 months, with 12 months of that suspension put on hold, because of judicial misconduct.

The judge is also immediately suspended from his judicial office without pay for the duration of the suspension. The discipline stems primarily from his handling of a child custody case, known as the Glasier matter.

In 2020, Judge Grendell ordered two young brothers to be held in a juvenile detention center over a weekend after they would not see their father, despite a court order. The court found that the judge's actions involved a willful d

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