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WARREN — A complaint filed against a Trumbull County assistant prosecutor was dropped by the disciplinary counsel of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who determined the official’s actions did not rise to the level of professional misconduct.
In a letter dated March 31, assistant disciplinary Counsel Adam P. Bessler states Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Becker did not violate the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct, noting the state body dismissed the grievance made by a California man and closed the case.
“The First Amendment protects an attorney as it would any ordinary citizen, except for when the attorney is acting in some professional capacity in the matter in which the speech occurs,” Bessler wrote to complainant Tim R. Tolka of San Francisco.