In re Disqualification of Callahan

O’Connor, CJ.

{¶ 1} Daniel P. Jones, counsel for the defendant in the underlying case, has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge Lynne S. Callahan from presiding over any further proceedings in case No. CR-2012-01-0169(A), a capital case pending on a petition for postconviction relief in the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County.

{¶ 2} Jones claims that Judge Callahan should be disqualified from hearing the petition because the judge presided over Richard Beasley’s jury trial and the earlier trial of a codefendant, Brogan Rafferty.…