Ridgeway v. Akron’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““ * * * [A]nd it is settled in this state that, in the class of cases enumerated, it is an indispensable prerequisite to an order of removal that there shall have been a complaint filed and an opportunity for a hearing had. “Such a requirement, in the class of cases like the case at bar, where the basis of the forfeiture of office is a finding and judgment of guilt after a full and complete judicial trial, would not be appropriate. The judgment of conviction would be conclusive and binding upon the board or officer before whom the complaint would be made, and there would be no fact for the board or officer to find; and we do not believe that the legislature intended the filing of a charge or complaint, and the affording of an opportunity to be heard, in cases where the officer has had a full and complete trial before a jury and court and has been convicted. “It is our best judgment that these various provisions can be harmonized by holding that the requirement as to complaint and hearing applies in the class of cases and situations arising under the legislation last hereinbefore referred to, and that there is no such requirement as to the class of cases and situations provided for under the legislation first hereinbefore referred to—to wit, where there has been a full and complete trial before a court and jury, and a judgment of conviction has been entered.” Id. at 48 , 42 N.E.2d at 726 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 62 Ohio App. 3d 417 - Hughes v. Brown