And she doesn't deserve the clemency/pardon she's after in a hearing being held today.
In the trial she had, she claimed that she was close to getting her degree at the University of Akron. She whined that a conviction would hamper her ability to get a teaching certificate, as though she would be a victim - rather than her simply having to face the consequences of her actions!
But that was a lie. From what I've read, she hasn't actually been enrolled in school in 2 years.
An Summit County judge says a woman jailed for using her father's address to enroll her children in a different school district was not on the verge of becoming a teacher herself, as she claimed during her trial.Summit County Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove tells the Columbus Dispatch that Kelley Williams-Bolar of Akron was ''nowhere near getting her teacher's license.'' The judge says her view is supported by school records, which will be presented during Williams-Bolar's upcoming clemency hearing.
Williams-Bolar was found guilty in Cosgrove's court of falsifying documents in the school residency matter, a conviction that threatens her hopes of obtaining a teaching license. She spent nine days in jail.
She claimed to be a full-time college student near graduation from the University of Akron with an early childhood degree. That's a crucial point in her pardon request because felons cannot be public school teachers in Ohio. But today the board learned she hasn't been a student since 2009 and has more than two years of coursework remaining before earning a degree.
And from what I've read elsewhere, she'd been keeping her school records locked, so that the news media couldn't find out exactly what her school history was! It didn't work to prevent every inquirer from accessing those records, as the judge who heard her case, yet took pity on her, found out that she isn't working towards a degree in teaching, and that her GPA wouldn't even allow her to get into the school!
As a result of her complaint that a felony conviction would deny her the right to get a teaching certificate, the judge in her trial took pity on her, and wrote a letter to the Ohio State Board of Education, asking them to take pity on Kelley Williams-Bolar, and allow her to get a teaching certificate despite having a felony conviction. But if she's not actually close to getting a teaching degree (or a degree that would allow her to get a teaching certificate because she'd taken enough of the prerequisites), then there's no real purpose in the judge sending that letter - nor any real purpose in her whining that a felony conviction would hurt her chances of getting that certificate.
Please, if you aren't fully aware of all the ins and outs of this case, before you go off half-cocked, read my previous diary on this woman's case. She wasn't unfairly tried or convicted.