Title: Elersic v. Wilson

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as Elersic v. Wilson, 101 Ohio St.3d 417, 2004-Ohio-1501.] 
 
 
ELERSIC, APPELLANT, v. WILSON, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Elersic v. Wilson, 101 Ohio St.3d 417, 2004-Ohio-1501.] 
Habeas corpus sought to compel relator’s release from prison — Claimed 
violation of a criminal defendant’s right to a speedy trial and claimed 
violation of constitutional right against double jeopardy are not 
cognizable in habeas corpus — Court of appeals’ dismissal of petition 
affirmed. 
(No. 2003-1693 — Submitted March 15, 2004 — Decided April 14, 2004.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Trumbull County, No.2003-
T-0070, 2003-Ohio-4229. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶1} 
In November 2002, the Lake County Court of Common Pleas 
convicted appellant, Shane R. Elersic, of burglary and an accompanying firearm 
specification and sentenced him to prison. 
{¶2} 
In May 2003, Elersic filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for 
Trumbull County for a writ of habeas corpus to compel appellee, Trumbull 
Correction Institute Warden Julius Wilson, to release him from prison.  Elersic 
claimed that he was entitled to the writ because he had been denied his right to a 
speedy trial.  Elersic further claimed that his conviction had violated his 
constitutional right against double jeopardy.  Wilson moved to dismiss Elersic’s 
petition.  On August 11, 2003, the court of appeals sua sponte dismissed the 
petition. 
{¶3} 
We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  Elersic’s speedy-
trial and double-jeopardy claims are not cognizable in habeas corpus.  Travis v. 
Bagley (2001), 92 Ohio St.3d 322, 323, 750 N.E.2d 166 (speedy trial); Howard v. 
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Randle, 95 Ohio St.3d 281, 2002-Ohio-2122, 767 N.E.2d 268, ¶ 6 (double 
jeopardy).  Elersic had adequate remedies in the ordinary course of the law to 
raise these claims. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR and O’DONNELL, JJ., concur. 
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Shane R. Elersic, pro se. 
 
Jim Petro, Attorney General, and Thelma Thomas Price, Assistant 
Attorney General, for appellee. 
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