Melling v. Stralka

The determinative issue before the court in the instant case is whether a municipal court judge has the authority to issue an order prohibiting all city solicitors, law directors, municipal and county prosecutors, and the assistants thereof, from representing defendants in criminal matters pending before his court. We find that he does not have this authority.

Section 2(B)(1), Article IV of the Ohio Constitution provides:

“The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in the following:

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“(g) Admission to the practice of law, the discipline of persons so admitted, and all other…