Title: Jackson v. Rose

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

Jackson, Appellant, v. Rose, Warden, Appellee. 
[Cite as Jackson v. Rose (1997),      Ohio St.3d       .] 
Criminal law -- Failure to comply with R.C. 2945.05 may be remedied only 
in a direct appeal from a criminal conviction -- Claimed violation of 
R.C. 2945.05 is not the proper subject for habeas corpus relief. 
 
(No. 97-30 -- Submitted May 6, 1997 -- Decided June 18, 1997.) 
 
Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Lorain County, No. 95CA006135.           
 
In 1991, the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas convicted appellant, 
Neil S. Jackson, of two counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs and one count of 
possessing criminal tools.  In 1995, Jackson filed a petition in the Court of 
Appeals for Lorain County for a writ of habeas corpus.  Jackson claimed in his 
petition, as amended, that the trial court had not complied with R.C. 2945.05 
because he never signed a jury waiver form and no form was ever filed in his 
criminal case.  The court of appeals dismissed the petition.   
 
The cause is now before this court upon an appeal as of right. 
____________________ 
 
Neil S. Jackson, pro se. 
 
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Charles L. Wille, Assistant 
Attorney General, for appellee. 
____________________ 
 
Per Curiam.  Jackson asserts that the court of appeals erred in dismissing 
his habeas corpus petition.  As the court of appeals held, however, the failure to 
comply with R.C. 2945.05 may be remedied only in a direct appeal from a criminal 
conviction.  State v. Pless (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 333, 658 N.E.2d 766, paragraph 
two of the syllabus.  A claimed violation of R.C. 2945.05 is not the proper subject 
for habeas corpus relief.  74 Ohio St.3d at 339, 658 N.E.2d at 770. 
 
Based on the foregoing, the court of appeals properly dismissed Jackson’s 
habeas corpus petition.  Accordingly, the judgment of the court of appeals is 
affirmed. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.