State v. Kraus (In re Crawford)

*1201{¶ 1} Defendant, Steven Kraus, has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge Dale Crawford, a retired judge sitting by assignment, from presiding over any further proceedings in the above-captioned case. Kraus has also filed a motion to supplement his affidavit.

{¶ 2} A jury convicted Kraus on a felony-theft charge in July 2015, and Kraus appealed his conviction. However, on September 11, 2015, the Sixth District Court of Appeals stayed the appeal and remanded the case to the trial court, because Judge Crawford had not yet entered a judgment…