Rule 36.013 - Assignment of Capital Cases Criminal cases in which an indictment or a count in an indictment charges the defendant with aggravated murder and contains one or more specifications of aggravating circumstances listed in R.C. 2929.04(A) shall be assigned to a judge of the court or division who is qualified to hear the cases pursuant to either of the following methods:
(A) Randomly assigned by lot among all judges who are qualified;(B) By a method that meets each of the following requirements: (1) Assignments are made by lot from a pool consisting of the names of each judge of the court or division who is eligible to hear the criminal cases;(2) Upon receipt of such criminal case, the name of the assigned judge is removed from the pool;(3) Upon the assignment of such criminal case to the second-to-last judge in the pool, the names of each judge of the court or division who is eligible to hear capital cases are added back into the pool.Ohio. R. Superi. Ct. 36.013
Amended September 26, 2017; effective 1/1/2018.