Case Title: State ex rel. Frazier v. Brigano

Citation: 2004-Ohio-2139

Docket Number: 20030753

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2004-05-12T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as State ex rel. Frazier v. Brigano, 102 Ohio St.3d 148, 2004-Ohio-2139.] 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. FRAZIER, APPELLANT, v. BRIGANO, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Frazier v. Brigano, 102 Ohio St.3d 148, 2004-Ohio-2139.] 
Habeas corpus — Failure to comply with three-judge panel requirement of R.C. 
2945.06 must be raised on direct appeal rather than by collateral attack 
— Pratts v. Hurley, followed. 
(No. 2003-0753 — Submitted April 14, 2004 — Decided May 12, 2004.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Warren County, No. CA2003-01-001. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶1} 
On March 26, 2003, the Court of Appeals for Warren County 
dismissed the petition of appellant, John Wesley Frazier, for a writ of habeas 
corpus.  Frazier claimed that the acceptance of his guilty plea in a capital case by 
a single judge rather than a three-judge panel violated R.C. 2945.06 and thereby 
divested his trial court of jurisdiction and entitled him to the writ.  On appeal, we 
held this cause for a decision in Pratts v. Hurley, Supreme Court case Nos. 2003-
0392, 99 Ohio St.3d 1408, 2003-Ohio-2454, 788 N.E.2d 646, and 2003-0560, 99 
Ohio St.3d 1406, 2003-Ohio-2454, 788 N.E.2d 644.  State ex rel. Frazier v. 
Brigano, 100 Ohio St.3d 1512, 2003-Ohio-6398, 799 N.E.2d 638. 
{¶2} 
On May 5, 2004, we held in Pratts v. Hurley, 102 Ohio St.3d 81, 
2004-Ohio-1980, 806 N.E.2d 992, that an alleged violation of R.C. 2945.06 is not 
a proper subject for habeas corpus relief and may be remedied only in a direct 
appeal from a criminal conviction.  See, also, State ex rel. Collins v. Leonard 
(1997), 80 Ohio St.3d 477, 478, 687 N.E.2d 443. 
{¶3} 
Based on the foregoing, we affirm the judgment of the court of 
appeals. 
Judgment affirmed. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR and O’DONNELL, JJ., concur. 
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Arenstein & Gallagher and William R. Gallagher, for appellant. 
 
Jim Petro, Attorney General, and Diane Mallory, Assistant Attorney 
General, for appellee. 
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