State Ex Rel. Paige v. Lisotto

Relator has filed on June 6, 1997, an alternative complaint in prohibition or mandamus seeking to exclude “other acts” evidence to be admitted into evidence from relator’s capital trial.

The requisite elements to obtain a writ of prohibition or mandamus are stated in State ex rel. Aycock v. Mowrey (1989), 45 Ohio St.3d 347, 349, 544 N.E.2d 657, 659-660:

“For a writ of prohibition to issue, a relator must establish (1) that the court or officer against whom the writ is sought is about to exercise judicial or quasi-judicial power, (2) that the exercise of that a power is unauthorized by law, and…