In re Disqualification of Clunk

O’Connor, CJ.

{¶ 1} William M. Flevares, counsel for Rudolph Joseph Setinsek, has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge R.R. Denny Clunk, a retired judge sitting by assignment, from presiding over any further proceedings in the above-captioned cases and all other cases in which Flevares appears as counsel before Judge Clunk. Judge Clunk is currently assigned to hear all of Flevares’s probate cases in Trumbull County because Trumbull County Probate Court Judge Thomas A. Swift recused himself from Flevares’s matters.

{¶ 2} Flevares claims…