Staff report

WARREN — Liberty Township Trustee Devon Stanley’s case will eventually be presided over — just not by any judge in the county.

According to records, elected judges in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court attested to the Supreme Court of Ohio that, after reviewing the case and its circumstances, none of them are eligible to hear the case — based on conflicts of interest.

The judges requested that Sharon L. Kennedy, the Supreme Court of Ohio’s chief justice, assign a sitting or retired judge to preside over Stanley’s case.

Records state Friday that the state’s supreme court assigned Thomas Teodosio, a retired 9th District Court of Appeals judge, to hear the case.

Stanley, who is also a Girard Municipal Court prosecutor and the county’s deputy clerk of courts, is still being held at the Trumbull County jail on a felonious assault charge.

The charge is in connection to an Oct. 23 incident, where a Niles police captain was contacted by a Trumbull County Children’s Services Board representative, who was told that a referral was made to them about a woman who was involved in a domestic violence altercation that afternoon.

Officers working security detail at an Oct. 24 Niles High School football game with Girard arrested Stanley.

Stanley waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday, a day before he was set to appear again before Niles Municipal Court Judge Christopher Shaker.