Title: State ex rel. Williams v. Turner

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. Williams v. Turner, Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-2575.] 
 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2012-OHIO-2575 
STATE EX REL. WILLIAMS, APPELLANT, v. TURNER, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets,  
it may be cited as State ex rel. Williams v. Turner,  
Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-2575.] 
Court of appeals’ judgment dismissing petition for writ of habeas corpus 
affirmed. 
(No. 2012-0085—Submitted June 6, 2012—Decided June 13, 2012.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Marion County, No. 9-11-56. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the 
petition of appellant, Corey J. Williams, for a writ of habeas corpus.  “[H]abeas 
corpus is not available to remedy a claim concerning the validity of an 
amendment to an indictment.”  Haynes v. Voorhies, 110 Ohio St.3d 243, 2006-
Ohio-4355, 852 N.E.2d 1198, ¶ 5.  Williams’s “claim of sentencing error is not 
cognizable in habeas corpus, and he had an adequate remedy in the ordinary 
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course of law to raise the issue.”  See Roberts v. Knab, 131 Ohio St.3d 60, 2012-
Ohio-56, 960 N.E.2d 457, ¶ 1. 
Judgment affirmed. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL, 
LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur. 
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Corey Williams, pro se. 
 
Michael DeWine, Attorney General, and Maura O’Neill Jaite, Senior 
Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. 
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