· 3/22/2024
Wakeman v. Smith
Citations
- 2024 Ohio 1067
Syllabus
Partial trial court error in convicting and sentencing appellant on five counts of violating municipal junk motor vehicle ordinance. Judgment affirmed, in part, and reversed, in part. Osowik.
How courts have described this case
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- stating that the order “conclusively determines whether the challenged counsel will be allowed to prosecute”
- vacating order disqualifying entire U.S. Attorney’s office, and finding that prosecutor was not conflicted, but that, even if she had been, a conflict-free prosecutor could have been appointed
- vacating a district court’s disqualification of a United States Attorney and the United States Attorney’s Office, and noting that “there [is] no indication in the record that [the] [prosecutor] played any role whatsoever in the underlying civil action here . . .”
- “An order disqualifying government counsel in a criminal case . . . is immediately appealable[.]”
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Judges: Osowik
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