In re Disqualification of Baronzzi

{¶ 1} Defendant Charlotte Trageser has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge Thomas M. Baronzzi from presiding over any further proceedings in case No. C2012-0372, AB21230345, a child-custody case in the Juvenile Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbiana County.

{¶ 2} The plaintiff filed his complaint in October 2012. About a year later, Trageser filed a motion to disqualify plaintiffs counsel, Tracey Laslo, arguing that Laslo had a conflict of interest because Trageser had consulted with her in 2011 about an unrelated divorce…