Title: State ex rel. Rankin v. Mohr

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. Rankin v. Mohr, Slip Opinion No. 2011-Ohio-5934.] 
 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2011-OHIO-5934 
THE STATE EX REL. RANKIN, APPELLANT, v. MOHR, DIR., APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State ex rel. Rankin v. Mohr,  
Slip Opinion No. 2011-Ohio-5934.] 
Court of appeals’ judgment denying request for writ of mandamus affirmed. 
(No. 2011-0997—Submitted November 16, 2011—Decided November 23, 2011.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Highland County, No. 10CA9. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals denying the request 
of appellant, Robert Rankin, for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, Gary 
Mohr, the director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction 
(“ODRC”), to recalculate the expiration of his stated prison term by crediting 
each of his concurrent prison terms with 734 days. 
{¶ 2} The ODRC director had no duty to reduce Rankin’s Highland 
County 13-year sentence by the number of days that Rankin was confined for 
other crimes before he received the 13-year sentence.  R.C. 2967.191 provides:  
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“The department of rehabilitation and correction shall reduce the stated prison 
term of a prisoner * * * by the total number of days that the prisoner was confined 
for any reason arising out of the offense for which the prisoner was convicted and 
sentenced * * *.”  The fact that the Highland County court ordered that Rankin’s 
13-year sentence be served concurrently with his prior sentences does not affect 
our determination that Rankin is not entitled to a reduction of his 13-year 
sentence.  See generally State v. Parsley, Franklin App. No. 01AP-612, 2010-
Ohio-1689, 2010 WL 1510197, ¶ 48-50.  Our holding in State v. Fugate, 117 
Ohio St.3d 261, 2008-Ohio-856, 883 N.E.2d 440, does not require a different 
result, because in that case, the defendant was held on each of the charges before 
his sentencing, and he was thus entitled to a reduction of each concurrent prison 
term.  Id. at ¶ 17-18. 
{¶ 3} Therefore, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals. 
Judgment affirmed. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL, 
LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur. 
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Robert Rankin, pro se. 
 
Michael DeWine, Attorney General, and Jason Fuller, Assistant Attorney 
General, for appellee. 
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