Legal Question in Criminal Law in Ohio

In Ohio, motions are meaningless until they are they are signed by a judge (or in some extremely limited cases, a Magistrate). A motion is nothing more than a request from a party (usually through its attorney) for the relief it seeks from the court. The proper response to it is a memorandum contra that motion arguing that under the facts and/or law it should not be granted. Then the original proponent of the motion gets one last chance to file a reply to the Memo Contra, and it is submitted to the judge to decide. Sometimes a judge might call for an oral hearing on the motion, where further evidence can be presented. But at some point, the judge will decide and then it becomes enforceable.

There are some limited situations where the judge will grant "ex parte" relief in emergency situations without hearing from the other side, but that is for temporary and short periods of time until both sides can be heard.