Case Title: State ex rel. Fuller v. Sutula

Citation: 1999-Ohio-164

Docket Number: 19990424

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1999-09-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as State ex rel. Fuller v. Sutula, 86 Ohio St.3d 301, 1999-Ohio-164.] 
 
 
 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. FULLER, APPELLANT, v. SUTULA, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Fuller v. Sutula (1999), 86 Ohio St.3d 301.] 
Mandamus to compel common pleas court judge to issue findings of fact and 
conclusions of law on denial of relator’s successive petition for 
postconviction relief — Writ denied, when. 
(No. 99-424 — Submitted June 22, 1999 — Decided September 1, 1999.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No. 75514. 
 
In 1986, appellant, Johnny Ray Fuller, was convicted of murder and a gun 
specification and was sentenced to prison.  In 1990, the Cuyahoga County Court of 
Common Pleas denied Fuller’s initial petition for postconviction relief and issued 
findings of fact and conclusions of law.  The court of appeals subsequently 
affirmed the denial of postconviction relief.  State v. Fuller (Aug. 6, 1992), 
Cuyahoga App. No. 60915, unreported, 1992 WL 189553, discretionary appeal not 
allowed (1992), 65 Ohio St.3d 1475, 604 N.E.2d 167. 
 
After appellee, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kathleen 
A. Sutula, denied Fuller’s second petition for postconviction relief filed in 1997, 
Fuller filed a complaint in the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County in 1998 for a 
writ of mandamus to compel her to issue findings of fact and conclusions of law.  
The court of appeals denied the writ. 
 
This cause is now before the court upon an appeal as of right. 
__________________ 
 
Johnny Ray Fuller, pro se. 
 
William D. Mason, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and Randi 
Marie Ostry, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee. 
__________________ 
 
Per Curiam.  We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  Judge Sutula 
 
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had no duty to issue findings of fact and conclusions of law on Fuller’s second 
petition for postconviction relief.  State ex rel. Carroll v. Corrigan (1999), 84 Ohio 
St.3d 529, 530, 705 N.E.2d 1226, 1227. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.