Title: State ex rel. Fears v. Myers

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. Fears v. Myers, Slip Opinion No. 2014-Ohio-1939.] 
 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2014-OHIO-1939 
THE STATE EX REL. FEARS, APPELLANT, v. MYERS, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets,  
it may be cited as State ex rel. Fears v. Myers,  
Slip Opinion No. 2014-Ohio-1939.] 
Mandamus—Petition seeking new sentencing hearing—Relator has adequate 
remedy at law by appeal or postconviction relief—Judgment affirmed and 
writ denied. 
(No. 2013-1492—Submitted April 30, 2014—Decided May 15, 2014.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, No. C-130461. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} William Fears appeals the First District Court of Appeals’ 
dismissal of his complaint for a writ of mandamus.  Fears sought a writ 
compelling the trial court to grant him a new sentencing hearing.  For the 
following reasons, the court of appeals properly dismissed Fears’s complaint, and 
we affirm. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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{¶ 2} Fears had adequate remedies at law by appeal or postconviction 
relief to review his claimed sentencing error. State ex rel. Sampson v. Parrott, 82 
Ohio St.3d 92, 93, 694 N.E.2d 463 (1998), citing State ex rel. Massie v. Rogers, 
77 Ohio St.3d 449, 450, 674 N.E.2d 1383 (1997). Moreover, the fact that Fears 
has already invoked some of these alternate remedies to raise his claim of 
sentencing error does not entitle him to extraordinary relief in mandamus. 
Sampson at 93, citing State ex rel. Tran v. McGrath, 78 Ohio St.3d 45, 47, 676 
N.E.2d 108 (1997). 
{¶ 3} Based on the foregoing, we affirm the judgment of the court of 
appeals. 
Judgment affirmed. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, KENNEDY, 
FRENCH, and O’NEILL, JJ., concur. 
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William Fears, pro se. 
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