Case Title: State ex rel. McKinney v. Defiance Cty. Court of Common Pleas

Citation: 2009-Ohio-4693

Docket Number: 20090523

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2009-09-16T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as State ex rel. McKinney v. Defiance Cty. Court of Common Pleas, 123 Ohio St.3d 153, 
2009-Ohio-4693.] 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. MCKINNEY, APPELLANT, v. 
DEFIANCE COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. McKinney v. Defiance Cty. Court of Common Pleas,  
123 Ohio St.3d 153, 2009-Ohio-4693.] 
Mandamus — Adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law — Writ denied. 
(No. 2009-0523 ─ Submitted September 2, 2009 ─ Decided September 16, 2009.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Defiance County, 
No. 4-09-01. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the 
petition of appellant, Daniel P. McKinney, for a writ of mandamus to compel 
appellee, Defiance County Court of Common Pleas, to issue findings of fact and 
conclusions of law on the court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief.  
Mandamus will not issue to compel an act that has already been performed.  State 
ex rel. Madsen v. Foley Jones, 106 Ohio St.3d 178, 2005-Ohio-4381, 833 N.E.2d 
291, ¶ 11.  The common pleas court issued the requisite findings of fact and 
conclusions of law in February 2005.  McKinney had an adequate remedy at law 
by appeal from that judgment to raise his claim that the common pleas court erred 
in not reviewing a hearing transcript.  And even if McKinney is correct that the 
clerk did not properly serve notice of the judgment on him, he is not entitled to 
the requested extraordinary relief in mandamus, because he had adequate 
remedies in the ordinary course of law by delayed appeal and a motion for relief 
from judgment to raise this claim.  State ex rel. Halder v. Fuerst, 118 Ohio St.3d 
142, 2008-Ohio-1968, 886 N.E.2d 849, ¶ 7.  We also deny McKinney’s motion to 
strike the common pleas court’s brief. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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Daniel McKinney, pro se. 
 
Morris J. Murray, Defiance County Prosecuting Attorney, and Russell R. 
Herman, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee. 
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