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Judge Jeannine N. Pratt's record in serious criminal cases
About the judge
Judge, Miami County Court of Common Pleas, General Division
Jeannine N. Pratt has been a judge of the Miami County Court of Common Pleas in Troy, Ohio, since February 2015, after 18 years as a county assistant prosecutor. She presided over the 2026 murder trial of Caleb Flynn and on Oct. 5, 2026, sentenced him to life in prison without parole. She was re-elected without opposition Nov. 3, 2026.
Elected; on the bench since 2015
Bench Watch Brief · What the data shows
Bench Watch logs the sentences Judge Jeannine N. Pratt of Miami County Common Pleas Court has imposed in serious criminal cases since she took the bench in 2015, from court opinions and news reports. It isn't a complete record. In the nine cases logged so far, she went above a sentence prosecutors and the defense jointly recommended once, followed a joint recommendation twice, and went above the prosecution's recommendation once.
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| Source | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Election year | Caleb C. Flynn | Sentence: aggravated murder and 8 other counts (jury trial) | Life without parole, after 16 years on other counts | The harshest of the four sentences Ohio law lists for aggravated murder without a death-penalty specification; LOCAL 12 called it mandatory in this case | SourceCase file | |
| 2022 | Joshua A. Mize | Sentence: involuntary manslaughter in a 1-year-old's death, and other counts (guilty plea) | 18 to 23.5 years | Above the prosecution's original recommendation in the plea deal (15 to 18 years) | Source | |
| 2022 | Britaney N. Kirchgessner | Sentence: aggravated vehicular manslaughter; impaired driving (no-contest plea) | 7 to 10.5 years | Below the maximum (12 years) | Source | |
| 2021 | A Miami County man (name withheld to protect a child) | Sentence: rape of a child under 13 (10 counts) (guilty plea) | 20 years to life | Above the jointly recommended 10 years to life | Source | |
| 2019 | A Miami County man (name withheld to protect a child) | Sentence: rape; sexual battery (no-contest plea) | 11 years | Top of the range on the rape count; terms run concurrently, as the parties jointly recommended | Source | |
| 2018 | Nathan Dotson | Sentence: attempted felonious assault (guilty plea) | 30 months | Below the maximum (36 months) | Source | |
| 2017 | A Miami County man (name withheld to protect a child) | Sentence: sexual battery (2 counts) (bench trial) | 8 years (two 4-year terms, consecutive) | Maximum not stated in the opinion | Source | |
| 2016 | A Miami County man (name withheld to protect a child) | Sentence: rape of a child under 13 (3 counts) (guilty plea) | 20 years to life | No recommendation reported | Source | |
| 2016 | A Miami County man (name withheld to protect a child) | Sentence: rape of a child under 13 (2 counts) (guilty plea) | 18 years | Followed the jointly recommended sentence | Source |
How we built this
This tracker counts Judge Pratt's sentences and key rulings in serious criminal cases, meaning homicide, sex crimes and other violent felonies, and major federal crimes, plus rulings in cases Bench Watch follows. The goal is to cover the judge's whole time on the bench, so we log the most recent five years first, then work back, and the “Covers” line shows the years logged so far. Each row links to its source, whether a court record, an appeals opinion, an official release or a news report.
This is not a complete record. Ohio does not publish sentencing data by judge. Appeals opinions stopped naming the trial judge in 2023, and the state's sentencing data platform does not include Miami County and leaves judges anonymous. A full count would mean pulling cases one by one from the Miami County Clerk of Courts docket. Bench Watch adds decisions as it confirms them.
We leave “What each side asked” blank when the source didn't report it. “Compared with the options” sets the decision against what the law allowed, the sentencing guidelines and any joint recommendation, as reported in the source. We don't name victims. When naming a defendant would identify a child victim, we withhold the name.