YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Since taking office January 6, Lynn Maro says often been putting in 12 and 13-hour days learning the ropes as Mahoning County’s new prosecutor.
“There’s always a learning curve with any transition into a new phase, but it’s been a good learning curve. I’ve enjoyed it so far,” Maro said.
Maro became the county’s first newly elected prosecutor since the mid-1990s. She already has some changes planned for the office, including doing away with having two assistants assigned to handle cases in front of the five common pleas judges in the county.
“Eventually, we are going to go back down to one attorney per courtroom, have some extra attorneys to help with those high-level cases,” Maro said.
Already, she admits there have been hiccups that required quick action soon after being sworn in.
“There were some things that just weren’t conveyed to us accurately that, in candor, didn’t prepare us for what we needed to handle the first few days in,” Maro said.
One was the case of William Shaltz, who’d been secretly indicted on child-porn charges in August and was eventually arrested in Michigan. Maro says she and her staff learned in early January that Shaltz was about to be released on bond because the prior administration had not made arrangements to bring him back here.
As she continues to get settled into the office, Maro says she eventually will get back to trying cases, not wanting to walk away after spending more than three decades of her life in courtrooms.
“I think it’s important for you county prosecutor to stay active, to know what’s happening in the courtrooms, to stay active in trying those higher-level cases,” she said.
Only now representing Mahoning County and the State of Ohio.
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