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Attorney wants judge removed in gun law case
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Attorney wants judge removed in gun law case
By Kimball Perry, Post staff reporterBecause a judge's wife was held hostage at gunpoint 12 years ago, an attorney wants the judge to step down from presiding over a case that could overturn Ohio's law on carrying concealed weapons.Richard Ganulin, a city of Cincinnati assistant solicitor, filed a motion Monday seeking to have Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Ruehlman recused in the case.In the motion, Ganulin notes that several newspapers reported again last week the 1989 incident in which Ruehlman's wife and one of his children were confronted by a gun-wielding man who hit Ruehlman's wife in the head and drove off in their van - with her and her infant in the passenger seat.She escaped by jumping out of the moving van with the baby.Now, Ganulin said her comments to the media - she be lieves law-abiding citizens should be allowed to carry concealed weapons under some circumstances - are proof that Ruehlman must step down because his impartiality could be questioned by his wife's comments.It is the latest of several shots of verbal sparring Ganulin and the judge have engaged in during the case.It has been held up in Ruehlman's court for almost two years, largely because of sniping between Ganulin and Ruehlman.Ganulin wanted outside attorneys - experts in gun laws - added to the legal team fighting the suit. He submitted an entry, but didn't follow Ruehlman's rules to set a hearing date to see if the request would be granted.When no hearing date was set, Ruehlman denied the motion.Ganulin appealed that decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, tying the case up because Ganulin said other courts - and not Ruehlman - had jurisdiction in the case.Ruehlman couldn't be reached Wednesday.Several individuals - who say they need protection to do their jobs or feel safe - sued in 2000, seeking to have Ohio's law overturned.Now, the law allows carrying concealed weapons - but only via an ''affirmative defense'' in which a person is arrested and proves at trial the gun is needed for work or protection.The suit seeks to overturn the law to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons in certain instances, perhaps after completing a certification process.Ruehlman has heard the arguments from both sides and has set a Jan. 10 date to make his ruling, but has suggested he may rule before then. http://www.cincypost.com/2002/jan/03/judge010302.html
By Kimball Perry, Post staff reporterBecause a judge's wife was held hostage at gunpoint 12 years ago, an attorney wants the judge to step down from presiding over a case that could overturn Ohio's law on carrying concealed weapons.Richard Ganulin, a city of Cincinnati assistant solicitor, filed a motion Monday seeking to have Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Ruehlman recused in the case.In the motion, Ganulin notes that several newspapers reported again last week the 1989 incident in which Ruehlman's wife and one of his children were confronted by a gun-wielding man who hit Ruehlman's wife in the head and drove off in their van - with her and her infant in the passenger seat.She escaped by jumping out of the moving van with the baby.Now, Ganulin said her comments to the media - she be lieves law-abiding citizens should be allowed to carry concealed weapons under some circumstances - are proof that Ruehlman must step down because his impartiality could be questioned by his wife's comments.It is the latest of several shots of verbal sparring Ganulin and the judge have engaged in during the case.It has been held up in Ruehlman's court for almost two years, largely because of sniping between Ganulin and Ruehlman.Ganulin wanted outside attorneys - experts in gun laws - added to the legal team fighting the suit. He submitted an entry, but didn't follow Ruehlman's rules to set a hearing date to see if the request would be granted.When no hearing date was set, Ruehlman denied the motion.Ganulin appealed that decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, tying the case up because Ganulin said other courts - and not Ruehlman - had jurisdiction in the case.Ruehlman couldn't be reached Wednesday.Several individuals - who say they need protection to do their jobs or feel safe - sued in 2000, seeking to have Ohio's law overturned.Now, the law allows carrying concealed weapons - but only via an ''affirmative defense'' in which a person is arrested and proves at trial the gun is needed for work or protection.The suit seeks to overturn the law to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons in certain instances, perhaps after completing a certification process.Ruehlman has heard the arguments from both sides and has set a Jan. 10 date to make his ruling, but has suggested he may rule before then. http://www.cincypost.com/2002/jan/03/judge010302.html