City of North Olmsted v. Greiner

The city of North Olmsted appeals a municipal court order dismissing nine similar traffic ticket complaints for failure to state an offense. The trial court ruled that defendants had been improperly charged with violating an enabling ordinance rather than an ordinance proscribing wrongful conduct. We agree that the complaints were defective, so we affirm the trial court’s dismissal order.

Defendants were each given traffic ticket citations by two police officers at the same intersection in North Olmsted, Ohio. The face of each citation recited the same “DESCRIPTION OF OFFENSE”:

“Right Turn on…