Title: State ex rel. Adams v. Krichbaum

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as State ex rel. Adams v. Krichbaum, 105 Ohio St.3d 225, 2005-Ohio-1203.] 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. ADAMS, APPELLANT, v. KRICHBAUM, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Adams v. Krichbaum,  
105 Ohio St.3d 225, 2005-Ohio-1203.] 
Mandamus — Resentencing under State v. Comer not required when petitioner’s 
sentence became final before Comer was decided. 
(No. 2004-1524 — Submitted March 9, 2005 — Decided April 6, 2005.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Mahoning County,  
No. 04-MA-108, 2004-Ohio-4286. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} In August 2000, the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas 
convicted appellant, Dujuan Adams, of two counts of attempted murder and 
accompanying firearm specifications and sentenced him to 26 years in prison.  In 
March 2002, Adams’s appeal from his conviction and sentence was dismissed. 
{¶ 2} In June 2004, Adams filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for 
Mahoning County for a writ of mandamus to compel the state of Ohio to vacate 
his sentence and resentence him in accordance with State v. Comer, 99 Ohio St.3d 
463, 2003-Ohio-4165, 793 N.E.2d 473.  Appellee, Judge R. Scott Krichbaum, of 
the common pleas court, moved to dismiss the petition.  On July 30, 2004, the 
court of appeals granted Judge Krichbaum’s motion and dismissed the petition. 
{¶ 3} The cause is now before this court upon Adams’s appeal as of 
right. 
{¶ 4} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  Adams is not 
entitled to the retroactive application of Comer to his sentence because it had 
become final before we decided Comer.  See Ali v. State, 104 Ohio St.3d 328, 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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2004-Ohio-6592, 819 N.E.2d 687, ¶ 7, and cases cited therein, which include the 
court of appeals opinion in this case. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL and LANZINGER, JJ., concur. 
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Dujuan Adams, pro se. 
 
Paul J. Gains, Mahoning County Prosecuting Attorney, and Greta L. 
Johnson, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee. 
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