In Re Ian David Abbo, Debtor. Ian David Abbo v. Rossi, McCreery & Associates, Inc. Scott Rossi

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal of the District Court’s affirmance of the Bankruptcy Court’s determination that a debt from a prior State Court judgment is nondischargeable because it was “for willful and malicious injury by the debt- or.” 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6). The debt at issue is a $58,420 Ohio Court of Common Pleas judgment for malicious prosecution and abuse of process in favor of the plaintiff, Scott Rossi, and against the defendant, Ian David Abbo. The Ohio judgment arose from a jury trial in which the jury necessarily found that the defendant wrongfully caused criminal…