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...Cotner was placed on the ballot two weeks ago when Democrat Carney pulled out of the race because of what he called "personal problems." The Carney family, an important political entity, has been a long-time enemy of the Perks...
Ralph J. Perk, Republican mayor of Cleveland, retained office in a landslide victory over city council clerk Mercedes Cotner in the non-partisan election yesterday...
...Cotner, a moderate liberal like Carney, stressed municipal unity during her two week campaign. Her platform held that struggling races and ethnic groups have polarized Cleveland. However, she was unable to gain much exposure in the few days since Carney forfeited his place on the ballot...
Closed Doors. The same thing could have happened to Cotner in most other states. Virtually all of them have anti-sodomy statutes similar to Indiana's-many phrased with matching euphemism. Illinois and a few others except all consenting adults, and most law-enforcement agencies do not bother with such cases. Cotner nonetheless faced a long term, since convicted sex offenders rarely win parole until most of their sentence...
...Publisher Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation helped underwrite a habeas corpus petition. On the narrow legal ground that he was allowed to plead guilty without having been informed that he could have attacked the sodomy law constitutionally, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out Cotner's conviction by a 2-to-l vote. He is now free, after having served three years of his sentence, and is living with his grandmother in Illinois...