Case Title: State ex rel. Tate v. Calabrese

Citation: 2010-Ohio-1431

Docket Number: 20092120

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2010-04-07T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
State ex rel. Tate v. Calabrese, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-1431.] 
 
 
 
 
NOTICE 
This slip opinion is subject to formal revision before it is published in 
an advance sheet of the Ohio Official Reports.  Readers are requested 
to promptly notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of Ohio, 
65 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, of any typographical or 
other formal errors in the opinion, in order that corrections may be 
made before the opinion is published. 
 
SLIP OPINION NO. 2010-OHIO-1431 
THE STATE EX REL. TATE, APPELLANT, v. CALABRESE, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State ex rel. Tate v. Calabrese,  
Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-1431.] 
Appeal from dismissal of a petition for a writ of mandamus — Res judicata bars 
successive writ actions — Judgment affirmed. 
(No. 2009-2120 — Submitted March 31, 2010 — Decided April 7, 2010.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, 
No. 93741, 2009-Ohio-5389. 
__________________ 
 
Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the 
petition of appellant, Eric Tate, for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, 
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Deena Calabrese, to correct his 
sentence.  Tate has already unsuccessfully sought correction of the same sentence 
by raising a similar claim for writs of mandamus and prohibition.  See State ex 
rel. Tate v. Callahan, Cuyahoga App. No. 85615, 2005-Ohio-1202.  Res judicata 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
2 
 
thus barred Tate from instituting a successive writ action.  State ex rel. Essig v. 
Blackwell, 103 Ohio St.3d 481, 2004-Ohio-5586, 817 N.E.2d 5, ¶ 30; State ex rel. 
Carroll v. Corrigan (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 331, 332, 744 N.E.2d 771. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, 
C.J.,1 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
__________________ 
 
Eric Tate, pro se. 
 
William D. Mason, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and James E. 
Moss, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee. 
______________________ 
                                                 
1.  The late Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer participated in the deliberations in, and the final 
resolution of, this case prior to his death.