In re Disqualification of Rastatter

O’Connor, CJ.

{¶ 1} Defendant Ramon Boyce has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge Douglas M. Rastatter from presiding over any further proceedings in case No. 08-CR-612, now pending on Boyce’s petition for postconviction relief in the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County.

{¶ 2} According to Boyce’s affidavit, Judge Rastatter has presided over four of Boyce’s previous trials, one of which resulted in a “large reversal.” Because of this history, Boyce claims that Judge Rastatter has a “predetermined hostile and fixed anticipatory…