Title: State ex rel. Hayes v. Winkler

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. Hayes v. Winkler, Slip Opinion No. 2011-Ohio-6046.] 
 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2011-OHIO-6046 
THE STATE EX REL. HAYES, APPELLANT, v. WINKLER, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State ex rel. Hayes v. Winkler,  
Slip Opinion No. 2011-Ohio-6046.] 
Court of appeals’ judgment dismissing complaint for writ of mandamus affirmed. 
(No. 2011-1381—Submitted November 16, 2011—Decided December 1, 2011.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, No. C-110365. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the 
petition of appellant, Marcus Hayes, for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, 
Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ralph Winkler, to issue a 
judgment on certain postconviction motions in accordance with Civ.R. 58 and 
App.R. 4(A).  Insofar as Hayes sought to compel Judge Winkler to rule on his 
motions, the judge has already done so.  Mandamus will not compel a judge to 
rule on motions that the judge has already ruled on.  State ex rel. Womack v. 
Marsh, 128 Ohio St.3d 303, 2011-Ohio-229, 943 N.E.2d 1010, ¶ 10.  And as for 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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Hayes’s claim that he could not appeal the rulings because the clerk never served 
notice of the judgments on him, he had adequate remedies in the ordinary course 
of law by delayed appeal and motion for relief from judgment to raise his claim.  
State ex rel. McKinney v. Defiance Cty. Court of Common Pleas, 123 Ohio St.3d 
153, 2009-Ohio-4693, 914 N.E.2d 1044, ¶ 1. 
Judgment affirmed. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL, 
LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur. 
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Marcus Hayes, pro se. 
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