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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State ex rel. Earl, Appellant, v. Shafer, Custodian of Records, Appellee.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Earl v. Shafer (1999), 85 Ohio St.3d 370.]
    (No. 98-2548
    Submitted March 9, 1999
    Decided April 28, 1999.)
    
      Jonathan Earl, pro se.
    
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Jihad M. Smaili, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

We affirm the dismissal of Earl’s mandamus action. Earl has an adequate legal remedy by way of a declaratory judgment action in common pleas court to correct his prison record. State ex rel. Konoff v. Shafer (1997), 80 Ohio St.3d 294, 295-296, 685 N.E.2d 1248, 1249-1250; State ex rel. Yonkings v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr. (Oct. 28, 1993), Franklin App. No. 93AP-655, unreported, 1993 WL 435190, affirmed (1994), 69 Ohio St.3d 70, 630 N.E.2d 365. There is no evidence of any present injury to Earl that would prevent a declaratory judgment from providing a complete, beneficial, and speedy remedy. Konoff, 80 Ohio St.3d at 295-296, 685 N.E.2d at 1250, citing Schrader v. Vilevac (Jan. 31, 1996), Lorain App. No. 95CA006187, unreported, 1996 WL 37762.

Judgment affirmed.

Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.