City of North Olmsted v. Bullington

Patricia Ann Blackmon, Judge.

This appeal raises for the first time in Ohio the question of whether a city may prosecute a domestic violence victim for aiding and abetting an offender in the violation of a temporary protection order (“TPO”) issued for the victim’s protection restraining the offender from contact with the victim. This question comes to us in an appeal by the appellant city of North Olmsted (“city”) after the trial court dismissed the city’s complicity complaint filed by it against appellee Laura Bullington.

The city assigns the following errors for our review:

“I. The trial court…