Opinion: What makes Tracie Hunter mentally ill?

Vivian Rodgers is a Mount Auburn resident.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters claims Judge Tracie Hunter is mentally ill.

Well, is she mentally ill because Nov. 21, 2010, John Williams was declared judge before all votes were counted from majority black and Democratic precincts? Williams was director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections at the time.

Is Hunter mentally ill because she had to file a lawsuit against the Board of Elections to count the votes? Hunter eventually won the lawsuit and the Board of Elections was made to count the votes. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters represented the Board of Elections against Hunter on this case.

Is she mentally ill because the special prosecutors in her criminal case had a blank check at taxpayer expense? They admitted that they had not decided how much money they would bill Hamilton County for their services.

Is she mentally ill because it has cost Hamilton County taxpayers over $2.5 million to prosecute Hunter, and Deters is asking for $500,000 more to retry her on nine felonies they couldn't convict her on the first time?

Is she mentally ill because when Deters brings a suit against Hunter and the cases are appealed they go before his former mother-in-law, Sylvia Hendon, presiding judge of the 1st District Court of Appeals?

Is she mentally ill because Joe Deters sent a press release accusing Hunter of murdering two people, intentionally tainting her jury trial? Deters knew that Judge Hunter's rulings years prior had nothing to do with murder!

Is she mentally ill because Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, the judge in Hunter’s second trial, was a court of appeals judge who ruled on Hunter's juvenile court cases? Dinkelacker's rulings were used against Hunter in her first trial.

Is she mentally ill because the special prosecutors in her case, Scott Croswell and Merlyn Shiverdecker, were Deters' personal defense lawyers, representing him in his divorce?

Deters, with his clan here in Hamilton County and connections throughout the entire court system in the state of Ohio, has violated Hunter’s rights from the very beginning and continues to do so.