Bob Greene

Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Nodine Miller might as well have used a Xerox machine as she ordered Patrick Bourgeois released early from the prison sentence he was serving...

With Franklin County prosecutors having misplaced the motion by Patrick Bourgeois asking that he be released from the prison sentence he was serving for torturing and killing his 3-year-old son,...

One of the killers of 3-year-old P.J. Bourgeois was already out on the street, released early from prison by Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Nodine Miller. Now the other...

Neither Tracy Lynn Bratton, one of the killers of 3-year-old P.J. Bourgeois, nor Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Nodine Miller, who ordered Bratton released from prison early, wants to...

You would think that nothing could be more insulting to the memory of 3-year-old P.J. Bourgeois than the early release from prison of the people who tortured and killed him....

When Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Nodine Miller released Tracy Lynn Bratton from prison early, the judge issued a written order listing some of her reasons. Bratton, as we...

On a December day last year, Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Nodine Miller convened court for the purpose of ruling whether Tracy Lynn Bratton, one of the killers of...

There was a legal game going on in the Franklin County courthouse -- one that virtually all of the prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys and judges apparently knew about. From what...

Even before Patrick Bourgeois and his girlfriend, Tracy Lynn Bratton, were sent off to prison for killing Bourgeois' 3-year-old son, P.J., the mechanisms had been put in place to let...

They had killed 3-year-old P.J. Bourgeois -- they had beaten him, bitten him, bound his wrists and legs tightly with tape, and had left him to choke on his own...