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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Courts - More on: Hamilton Ohio Naked Prosecutor has Indiana connection
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 11th, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports today:
HAMILTON – A city prosecutor has been fired for alleged nudity in a public building, following revelations that he had “been doing similar things for about the past five years.”In documents released today, Law Director Hillary Stevenson told Scott Blauvelt, 35, that he was terminated from his job with the city. He had been a city prosecutor since March 2005.
“The behavior and acts committed by you...have adversely affected the City of Hamilton and the Municipal court and their personnel,” she wrote Tuesday. “Moreover, they have affected the credibility of this office and all of its employees. The damage done is irreparable, so too perhaps is the damage to you personally.”
Blauvelt was charged with two counts of indecent exposure after security cameras captured him walking around nude in Hamilton’s Government Services Center on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5. He was placed on a paid administrative leave Oct. 6.
His lawyer, Mike Gmoser, suggested that Blauvelt’s nude promenades may have resulted from mental illness, medication and/or residual effects of a brain injury he suffered in a car wreck last year.
But authorities said Blauvelt was nude during that wreck, too. Blauvelt told investigators that: “I have been doing similar things for about the past five years but I don’t know why,” Stevenson’s letter says.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 18, 2006 12:40 PM
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