Case Title: Rollins v. Haviland

Citation: 2001-Ohio-1884

Docket Number: 20011425

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2001-11-21T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as Rollins v. Haviland, 93 Ohio St.3d 590, 2001-Ohio-1884.] 
 
 
ROLLINS, APPELLANT, v. HAVILAND, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Rollins v. Haviland (2001), 93 Ohio St.3d 590.] 
Habeas corpus sought to compel relator’s release from prison — Court of 
appeals’ dismissal of petition affirmed, when. 
(No. 01-1425 — Submitted October 31, 2001 — Decided November 21, 2001.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Allen County, No. 1-01-76. 
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Per Curiam.  In July 1998, the Fulton County Court of Common Pleas 
convicted appellant, Mancel Rollins, Jr., of two counts of abduction, one count of 
aggravated assault with an accompanying firearm specification, one count of 
having weapons while under disability, and one count of unlawful restraint, and 
sentenced him to an aggregate prison term of fourteen to nineteen and one-half 
years.  In July 2000, the Ohio Adult Parole Authority denied parole and continued 
Rollins’s sentence until its maximum term. 
 
In 2001, Rollins filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for Allen County 
for a writ of habeas corpus to compel appellee, his prison warden, to immediately 
release him from prison.  The court of appeals dismissed the petition. 
 
In his appeal as of right, Rollins claims that the court of appeals erred in 
dismissing his petition.  He asserts that he is entitled to release from prison 
because of good-time credit earned under former R.C. 2967.19, 1994 
Am.Sub.H.B. No. 571, 145 Ohio Laws, Part IV, 6437. 
 
Rollins’s claim is meritless.  Former R.C. 2967.19 does not entitle him to 
release from prison before he serves the maximum term of his sentence.  State ex 
rel. Bealler v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth. (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 36, 36, 740 N.E.2d 
1100, 1101.  And he has no inherent or constitutional right to be released prior to 
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the expiration of his sentence.  State ex rel. Lanham v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth. 
(1997), 80 Ohio St.3d 425, 427, 687 N.E.2d 283, 284-285. 
 
Based on the foregoing, Rollins is not entitled to the requested writ of 
habeas corpus.  Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur. 
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Mancel Rollins, Jr., pro se. 
 
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Stuart A. Cole, Assistant 
Attorney General, for appellee. 
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