Former Trumbull County Commissioner Niki Frenchko has filed a petition in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for a panel rehearing or a rehearing en banc, following the late November court ruling that said Trumbull County sheriff's deputies had probable cause to arrest her during a 2022 meeting.

The court ruled in late November that Frenchko's behavior during the July 7, 2022, meeting gave Sgts. Harold Wix and Robert Ross had reasonable grounds to charge her with disrupting a lawful meeting.

The filing is asking the Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision because the ruling alleged that her counsel never raised the civil rights conspiracy claim; a ruling disputed by her counsel.

The petition is asking for the court to correct an alleged error and consider the conspiracy i

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