State ex rel. McKenney v. Jones (Slip Opinion)

Citations

• 168 Ohio St. 3d 180
• 197 N.E.3d 520
• 2022 Ohio 583

Syllabus

Prohibition—Mandamus—Appointment of counsel for indigent criminal defendants—To the extent that municipal-court judges sought to invalidate an agreement for the appointment of counsel, the wrong parties were named, because the parties to the agreement were not the common-pleas-court judges—Municipal-court judges lacked standing to challenge the appointment of counsel in the common pleas court, because the aggrieved parties were the indigent defendants or the unpaid attorneys—When a local rule is ambiguous, a common pleas court cannot have a clear legal duty to repeal it—Writs denied.