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In addition to the nearly two years she has headed the office, she served seven years as an assistant prosecutor in the 1990s and then 16 years as a county municipal court and juvenile court judge.
Franklin County Prosecutor G. Gary Tyack, a Democrat, took office in 2021 after winning the 2020 election against Ron O'Brien, a Republican who was the longest-serving prosecutor in county history.
It's been 91 years since Hamilton County has had a Democratic prosecutor, but the county is more blue every year. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Robert Gorman, a Democrat, was prosecutor from 1930 to ...
The lowest level is the courts of common pleas, the intermediate-level courts are the district courts of appeals, and the highest-ranking court is the Ohio Supreme Court. Ohio municipal and county courts hear cases involving traffic violations, non-traffic misdemeanors, evictions and small civil claims (in which the amount in controversy does ...
The Court reasons that this immunity is necessary to protect public officials from excessive interference with their responsibilities and from "potentially disabling threats of liability." [ 2 ] Absolute immunity contrasts with qualified immunity , which sometimes applies when certain officials may have violated constitutional rights or federal ...
The first municipal court was created in 1910, and county courts were created in 1957 as a replacement for justice courts. In 2014, there were 129 municipal courts and 35 county courts. [ 2 ] They are created by the General Assembly as provided in R.C. 1901 and 1907, and are limited by subject-matter jurisdiction .
Jan 18, 2024; Columbus, Ohio, USA; John Rutan, a local defense attorney, answers questions from the audience during the first debate between candidates running for Franklin County Prosecutor.
They are the only trial courts created by the Ohio Constitution (in Article IV, Section 1). The duties of the courts are outlined in Article IV, Section 4. Each of Ohio's 88 counties has a court of common pleas. The Ohio General Assembly (the state legislature) has the power to divide courts of common pleas into divisions, and has done so ...