Case Title: Cool v. Turner

Citation: 2013-Ohio-85

Docket Number: 2012-1344

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2013-01-17T00:00:00Z

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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
Cool v. Turner, Slip Opinion No. 2013-Ohio-85.] 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2013-OHIO-85 
COOL, APPELLANT, v. TURNER, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as Cool v. Turner, Slip Opinion No. 2013-Ohio-85.] 
Habeas corpus—Adequate remedy in ordinary course of law available—res 
judicata—Writ denied. 
(No. 2012-1344—Submitted January 9, 2013—Decided January 17, 2013.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Marion County, No. 9-12-28. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment dismissing the petition of appellant, 
Michael E. Cool, for a writ of habeas corpus.  He had an adequate remedy by 
appeal to raise his claim that the trial court erred in denying his motion for jail-
time credit.  See State ex rel. Rudolph v. Horton, 119 Ohio St.3d 350, 2008-Ohio-
4476, 894 N.E.2d 49, ¶ 3.  And the fact that Cool has already unsuccessfully 
invoked alternate remedies in the ordinary course of law by motion and appeal to 
raise this claim does not entitle him to extraordinary relief in habeas corpus to 
relitigate the matter.  Heddleston v. Mack, 84 Ohio St.3d 213, 702 N.E.2d 1198 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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(1998).  Res judicata bars Cool from using habeas corpus to obtain a successive 
appellate review of the same claim.  State ex rel. Harsh v. Sheets, 132 Ohio St.3d 
198, 2012-Ohio-2368, 970 N.E.2d 926, ¶ 1. 
Judgment affirmed. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, KENNEDY, 
FRENCH, and O’NEILL, JJ., concur. 
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Michael E. Cool, pro se. 
 
Michael DeWine, Attorney General, and Maura O’Neill Jaite, Assistant 
Attorney General, for appellee. 
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