Shaker Heights students oppose the decision to have Marcia Fudge, who asked a judge to show leniency to Lance Mason before he murdered Aisha Fraser, speak at graduation
Shaker Heights High School students have started a petition, which has as of Friday gathered more than 750 signatures, demanding the school not welcome Marcia Fudge to speak at the 2024 commencement festivities on June 5. Fudge, the former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and United States Congresswoman, in 2015 was among friends of former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason who wrote letters to a judge seeking leniency in sentencing after he pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges stemming from an incident when he viciously beat his then-wife Aisha Fraser, a beloved sixth-grade teacher in Shaker Heights, in front of the couple's children, punching her 20 times and smashing her face into the console of a car...