Ohio Courts of Common Pleas

And then they come to us as a matter of great public or general importance so that we can try to decide those important issues for the courts to follow and for the benefit of the public.

But again, You know, I never I kept when I was a trial court judge in Common Pleas Court in Franklin County, I kept a little laminated picture of a little African-American boy praying in church to remind myself.

I cut it out of the newspaper and I cut out his sister who was looking at her, looking at him like, what is wrong with you? He looked so pure and so innocent.

And I always kept that in front of me to always try to be true to my faith, but also to the humanism involved in what was here and to always work to the good of every person in front of me as much as I possibly could.

And you'd have to have them look at it and see if it needed any state law change, but they have some clout in the legislature too.

But you know what's interesting about that is Where is the cradle of judges? It's usually in the prosecutor's office.

Usually your elected prosecutor trains enough former prosecutors and they run for common pleas court judge.

If your public defender had to be elected, that might kind of equalize that cradle of judges.

And I'll just tell you an update.

We filed a lawsuit in the Common Pleas Court in Butler County, Ohio.

We did not win there, but it is now on appeal.

We are going to be filing very shortly an appeal before the 12th Circuit Court of Appeals, and we're going to be making the case.

And so sometimes it didn't bother her, but every once in a while things did bother her, and she would immediately fight back.

So her first day on the Common Pleas Court, she's elected, she's not even on the court yet.

She's elected and the ex- sitting judge- judges say, "Oh hey, we should have a domestic relations division," which they hear as part of the regular docket, but we should have a special division, and you're the woman, you should do that.

And she just writes her mentor in her diary, she said, "Talked to mentor, not gonna do this." She immediately goes to the press.