In re Disqualification of Forchione

{¶ 1} Attorney Craig T. Conley has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03, seeking to disqualify Judge Frank Forchione from case No. 2011-CV-02325, an attorney-malpractice action now pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Stark County.

{¶ 2} Conley alleges that Judge Forchione’s disqualification from the underlying case is required because (1) two local attorneys are parties, (2) the judge recently recused himself from another case in which Conley was a party, (3) Judge Dixie Park will be called as a fact witness, and (4) Judge Forchione engaged in judicial…