Title: Wright v. Money

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

WRIGHT, APPELLANT, v. MONEY, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Wright v. Money (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] 
Habeas corpus to compel relator’s immediate release from prison — Petition 
dismissed, when. 
(No. 98-118 — Submitted June 24, 1998 — Decided July 29, 1998.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Marion County, No. 9-97-74. 
 
In 1986, the Summit County Court of Common Pleas convicted appellant, 
Shawn E. Wright, of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and felonious 
assault and sentenced him accordingly. 
 
In 1997, Wright filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for Marion County 
for a writ of habeas corpus to compel his immediate release from prison.  Wright 
claimed that his conviction was unlawful because it was entered by a probate 
judge while sitting in the probate division of the common pleas court. 
 
The court of appeals sua sponte dismissed the petition. 
 
This cause is now before the court upon an appeal as of right. 
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Shawn E. Wright, pro se. 
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Per Curiam.  We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals for the reasons 
stated in its opinion.  The documentation attached to Wright’s petition established 
that he was convicted and sentenced by the general division of the common pleas 
court rather than the probate division.  Although his trial court judge might have 
normally been a probate division judge, the docket of journal entries indicates his 
assignment to preside over the criminal case in the general division.  See, e.g., 
Sup.R. 3(B)(2), which permits presiding judges of common pleas courts to assign 
 
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judges of the court “on a temporary basis to serve in another division of the court 
as required by the business of the court.” 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.