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Stalking and harassment

Ten criminal convictions in one case. A hospital and a law firm each had to go to court to make him stop. None of this was litigation — it was what he did to people outside it.

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Harassment, and what it took to stop it

Rocky River Municipal Court · Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas

2022–2023 · Protection orders

A hospital and a law firm each had to get protection orders against William Easton Horner

The Cleveland Clinic obtained one after he threatened, in a court filing, to hack its information systems to obtain discovery. His victims’ own law firm obtained another after he attacked its email servers — conduct for which he was later ordered to pay criminal restitution.

Separately, he was barred from entering the Cuyahoga County Courthouse and from contacting court staff outside proceedings. All his hearings were moved to video. That order issued the same day as the email attack.

Nos. CV-22-970761 and CV-23-974806; DR-20-382383. Civil stalking protection order files are not published online by the Clerk; both are recorded in the vexatious litigator opinion above.

See also. The attack on the law firm’s servers is the conduct he was convicted of.

8 March 2023 · Contempt

Held in contempt — $250 and thirty days, suspended so he could comply

On 4 January 2023 the court found he had committed defamation per se and ordered him to “remove all content created and/or posted by him on any website that accuses the Plaintiffs of criminal conduct,” and not to post it again. He did not take it down.

So his victims’ lawyers went to the platforms themselves, sending LinkedIn and YouTube copies of the judgment. His LinkedIn page was deactivated on 1 February; his YouTube page on 3 February.

By 7 February he had built a replacement — a new YouTube page, “Easton Horner 2,” carrying, in counsel’s words, “the same language previously determined by this Court to be defamatory,” along with two of the videos from the deleted page.

That is what the contempt was for. The hearing was held on 8 March 2023 with only the plaintiffs’ counsel present — he had told the court he would not attend in person. The fine and the thirty days were suspended until 15 March to let him put it right. On 27 March the plaintiffs filed notice that he had not.

Plaintiffs’ motion to show cause, 9 February 2023 · journal entry of 8 March 2023 · Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, No. CV-22-969917

See also. The same pattern, counted — nineteen channels by May · and what he did to those lawyers next, the attack on their firm.

23 April 2025 · Criminal conviction

William Easton Horner was convicted on all ten counts — harassment, and intimidating the people involved in the cases

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Ten counts were filed against him in the Rocky River Municipal Court on 25 October 2024: five of telecommunications harassment and five of intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness in a criminal case. A warrant issued the same day, and was served on 12 December 2024 — the docket records “defendant in custody.”

On 23 April 2025 he was convicted on every one of them. Nothing reduced, nothing dismissed. He was placed on active probation.

The charges are the point. Telecommunications harassment is conduct aimed at a person, not a filing. Intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness is conduct aimed at the people a case runs through — which is why it sits here rather than with what he filed.

Rocky River Municipal Court · No. CRB 2401647 · ten counts filed 25 October 2024, convicted on all ten 23 April 2025 · R.C. 2917.21 and R.C. 2921.04

The raw record is the court’s own case information and full docket, retrieved 25 August 2026 and kept unaltered — because a municipal record can be sealed or expunged later, and the summary should still be checkable against its source.

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