Title: State ex rel. Thomas v. DeWine

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
State ex rel. Thomas v. DeWine, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-4984.] 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2010-OHIO-4984 
THE STATE EX REL. THOMAS, APPELLANT, v. DEWINE, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State ex rel. Thomas v. DeWine,  
Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-4984.] 
Criminal law — Sentencing — Failure to notify of postrelease control — Writ of 
habeas corpus denied. 
(No. 2010-1241 — Submitted October 13, 2010 — Decided October 19, 2010.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, No. C-100352. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment dismissing the petition of appellant, Ako 
Thomas, for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, Hamilton County Court of 
Common Pleas Judge Patrick DeWine, to resentence him in order to provide him 
oral notification at his sentencing hearing of his mandatory five-year postrelease-
control term.  Thomas “had an adequate remedy by direct appeal from his 
sentence to raise his claim that he did not receive proper notification about 
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postrelease control at his sentencing hearing.”  Briseno v. Cook, 121 Ohio St.3d 
38, 2009-Ohio-308, 901 N.E.2d 798, ¶ 1. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
BROWN, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
 
LANZINGER, J., concurs in judgment only. 
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Ako Thomas, pro se. 
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