Conflicts of Interest; Present and Former Clients

Update: On February 4, 2020, the Court dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.

“Is this a big problem? Do you have attorneys from the PD’s office storming the courts to get off cases because of a potential risk of conflict?”

Chief Justice O’Connor, to the prosecutor

“And so how do we draw that distinction between

Update: On February 4, 2020, the Court dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.

Read an analysis of the argument here.

On January 8, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. Basim Barnes, 2018-1389. At issue in this case is whether a trial court’s denial of an