Case Title: State ex rel. Rudolph v. Horton

Citation: 2008-Ohio-4476

Docket Number: 20080957

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2008-09-10T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as State ex rel. Rudolph v. Horton, 119 Ohio St.3d 350, 2008-Ohio-4476.] 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. RUDOLPH, APPELLANT, v. HORTON, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Rudolph v. Horton, 119 Ohio St.3d 350, 2008-Ohio-4476.] 
Mandamus sought to compel judge to grant relator jail-time credit — Court of 
appeals’ dismissal of complaint affirmed. 
(No. 2008-0957 ─ Submitted August 26, 2008 ─ Decided September 10, 2008.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 07AP-1000. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for a writ 
of mandamus to compel a judge to award jail-time credit.  Because the petition 
does not state a viable mandamus claim, we affirm. 
{¶ 2} Appellant, Tyrone Rudolph, a prison inmate, filed a petition in the 
Court of Appeals for Franklin County for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, 
Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy Horton, to grant him 
jail-time credit on his previously entered sentence.  Judge Horton filed a motion to 
dismiss.  The court of appeals granted the motion and dismissed Rudolph’s 
petition. 
{¶ 3} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  Rudolph had an 
adequate remedy at law by appeal to raise any error by the trial court in 
calculating his jail-time credit.  State ex rel. Brown v. Summit Cty. Court of 
Common Pleas, 99 Ohio St.3d 409, 2003-Ohio-4126, 792 N.E.2d 1123, ¶ 4.  And 
insofar as Rudolph now claims that he is entitled to be released from prison 
because of his jail-time credit, habeas corpus, instead of mandamus, is the 
appropriate remedy.  State ex rel. Gordon v. Murphy, 112 Ohio St.3d 329, 2006-
Ohio-6572, 859 N.E.2d 928, ¶ 5. 
Judgment affirmed. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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MOYER, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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Tyrone Rudolph, pro se. 
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