Case ID: ohio-st-3d_127/html/0214-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State ex rel. Thomas, Appellant, v. DeWine, Judge, Appellee.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Thomas v. DeWine, 127 Ohio St.3d 214, 2010-Ohio-4984.]
    (No. 2010-1241
    Submitted October 13, 2010
    Decided October 19, 2010.)
    Ako Thomas, pro se.
   Per Curiam.

{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment dismissing the petition of appellant, Ako Thomas, for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas Judge Patrick DeWine, to resentence him in order to provide him oral notification at his sentencing hearing of his mandatory five-year postreleasecontrol term. Thomas “had an adequate remedy by way of direct appeal from his sentence to raise his claim that he did not receive proper notification about postrelease control at his sentencing hearing.” Briseno v. Cook, 121 Ohio St.3d 38, 2009-Ohio-308, 901 N.E.2d 798, ¶ 1.

Judgment affirmed.

Brown, C.J., and Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, O’Donnell, and Cupp, JJ., concur.

Lanzinger, J., concurs in judgment only.