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Rev. Raleigh Trammell's case in court on Feb. 9, 2011. He is charged with 51 felony counts related to his handling of public money for a home-delivered meals program.

Staff photo by Jim Witmer Rev. Raleigh Trammell's case in court on Feb. 9, 2011. He is charged with 51 felony counts related to his handling of public money for a home-delivered meals program.

By Lynn Hulsey, Staff Writer Updated 9:00 PM Wednesday, February 9, 2011

DAYTON — The Rev. Raleigh Trammell’s attorney on Wednesday challenged the assignment of Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Barbara P. Gorman to his trial on 51 felony counts related to a home-delivered meals program his social service organizations operated.

Trammell’s attorney, Marty Pinales, was asked by Gorman to submit his challenge in writing, and she rejected his request to release Trammell from electronically monitored home confinement to attend church services. Trammell is pastor of Central Missionary Baptist Church in Jefferson Twp.

She told Pinales that Trammell should check with his probation officer to get permission to visit his attorney’s office in Cincinnati. Trammell was released from jail on $10,000 bond on Jan. 14.

Trammell, former chairman of the Dayton Southern Christian Leadership Conference, faces felony counts of grand theft, forgery and tampering with government records involving the meals program that the county contracted with the SCLC and the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance to operate. Trammell was executive director of the IMA at the time.

Trammell is accused of stealing nearly $50,000 intended to feed needy elderly people from 2005 to 2010. The program was funded with Montgomery County Human Services Levy money.

Trammell’s case was originally assigned to the court’s newest member, Judge Steve Dankof, who replaced retiring Judge A.J. Wagner. Pinales said the reason for the transfer to Gorman should have been made clear and reassignment should have been done randomly.

Pinales would not comment afterward as to his reasons for challenging Gorman’s assignment to the case. Trammell also had no comment.

In the 1970s Trammell was deputy director of the Montgomery County Welfare Department and he served about a year in prison for crimes committed in that job. He was convicted in 1978 of two counts each of grand theft and larceny after he used the identity of someone he knew to create false records to steal taxpayer money from the welfare department.

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