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The common refrain is "you can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich". The standards required to indict are quite low. The fact that they failed to get an indictment here must mean they had ~nothing.

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Quoted, and sourced, in the comment you're replying to.

Yes, I'm aware.

Heh, my bad

Judges have a lot of freedom to decide sentences. They might get one willing to throw the book on him. The risk is still there.

Judges can’t throw the book at someone who wasn’t indicted.

Depending on the jurisdiction and court procedural rules, there may be other routes to an indictment.

I'm no expert on Ohio law however, so I don't know what specifically applies here.

How is a judge going to do that when this man wasn't even indicted?

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