Title: State ex rel. Crim v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as State ex rel. Crim v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth., 87 Ohio St.3d 38, 1999-Ohio-232.] 
 
 
 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. CRIM, APPELLANT, v. OHIO ADULT PAROLE AUTHORITY, 
APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Crim v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth. (1999), 87 Ohio St.3d 38.] 
Mandamus to compel Ohio Adult Parole Authority to credit relator’s sentence with 
his one-hundred-eight-day period of pretrial confinement — Denial of writ 
affirmed — Writ of mandamus will not issue to compel an act that has 
already been performed. 
(No. 99-491 — Submitted August 25, 1999 — Decided October 13, 1999.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lucas County, No. 98AP-680. 
 
In 1998, appellant, Howard Crim, Jr., filed a complaint in the Court of 
Appeals for Franklin County for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, Ohio 
Adult Parole Authority (“APA”), to credit his sentence with his one-hundred-eight-
day period of pretrial confinement.  The APA filed a motion to dismiss the 
complaint.  The APA attached to its motion an affidavit of the prison records 
custodian establishing that Crim’s sentences had been credited for the period of his 
pretrial confinement.  The court of appeals denied the writ. 
 
This cause is now before the court upon an appeal as of right. 
__________________ 
 
Howard Crim, Jr., pro se. 
 
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Joshua T. Cox, Assistant 
Attorney General, for appellee. 
__________________ 
 
Per Curiam.  We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  A writ of 
mandamus will not issue to compel an act that has already been performed.  State 
ex rel. Eads v. Callahan (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 405, 406, 696 N.E.2d 581, 582. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
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MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.