State ex rel. Dailey v. Dawson (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} This is an appeal as of right by appellants, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor and the city of East Cleveland, from the Eighth District Court of Appeals’ judgment granting a writ of prohibition in favor of appellees Randolph Dailey, Patricia Coleman, Michael Donegan, Jason Edens, and Paul Wilson—the defendants named in five indictments filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County. That writ prohibits appellee Judge William L. Dawson of the East Cleveland Municipal Court from exercising jurisdiction over an identical dereliction-of-duty charge against each of the same five…