Title: Brown v. Bradshaw

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 
Brown v. Bradshaw, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-3758.] 
 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2010-OHIO-3758 
BROWN, APPELLANT, v. BRADSHAW, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as Brown v. Bradshaw, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-3758.] 
Habeas corpus — Claim of denial of right to be present and to have counsel 
present at critical stage of trial — Adequate remedy in ordinary course of 
law by way of direct appeal — Writ denied. 
(No. 2010-0649 — Submitted August 10, 2010 — Decided August 18, 2010.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Richland County, No. 10 CA 14. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the 
petition of appellant, Felix Brown Jr., for a writ of habeas corpus.  “Like other 
extraordinary-writ actions, habeas corpus is not available when there is an 
adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.”  In re Complaint for Writ of 
Habeas Corpus for Goeller, 103 Ohio St.3d 427, 2004-Ohio-5579, 816 N.E.2d 
594, ¶ 6.  Brown had an adequate remedy by way of direct appeal from his 
criminal convictions and sentence to raise his claims that he was denied his right 
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to be physically present and to have counsel present at a critical stage in his trial, 
as well as to have the portion of the trial in which the trial court issued 
supplemental jury instructions open to the public.  See Bozsik v. Hudson, 110 
Ohio St.3d 245, 2006-Ohio-4356, 852 N.E.2d 1200, ¶ 7-9; State v. Davis, 116 
Ohio St.3d 404, 2008-Ohio-2, 880 N.E.2d 31, ¶ 90-93. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
BROWN, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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Felix Brown Jr., pro se. 
 
Richard Cordray, Attorney General, and Gene D. Park, Assistant Attorney 
General, for appellee. 
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