A Marion County Common Pleas judge and his wife have been found guilty of multiple felony charges stemming from a June 2020 hit-and-run that seriously injured a 19-year-old man.

Judge Jason Warner was found guilty of complicity to leaving the scene of an accident, a felony of the fourth degree, and complicity to tampering with evidence, a felony of the third degree on Wednesday, March 10. Warner was first elected to the bench in 2018.

As a convicted felon, Warner will not be eligible to serve as a judge. The Warners are set to be sentenced on April 14.

Julia Warner, his wife and the alleged driver of the vehicle was found guilty of two counts of misdemeanor negligent assault, complicity to leaving the scene of an accident, and complicity to tampering with evidence.

The crash was investigated by the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation. The Special Prosecutions Section of the Attorney General’s Office prosecuted the case.

‘It’s almost a cliché – the coverup is worse than the crime. Here, the most serious crimes were what happened after the crash – and a sitting judge should have known better,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said. “This case shows that even the most powerful people are not above the law.”