CINCINNATI — Ryan Widmer’s defense attorneys couldn’t use former Hamilton Twp. Detective Jeff Braley’s false employment records against him, but attorneys in a civil lawsuit against him will.
A federal judge approved a second deposition of Braley by attorneys representing the Pritchard family during a hearing on Friday. The suit filed several years ago accuses Braley, former Police Chief Frank Richardson, Lt. Phil Johnson, former officer Roger Gilbert and his wife Gail of staging an improper raid on their home in 2007.
Widmer is serving 15 years to life in prison for drowning his wife Sarah in the bathtub of their home in August 2008. Braley was the lead detective on the case and Widmer’s attorneys tried twice to get his falsified employment records before jurors, to discredit him. The judge
