[Cite as State ex rel. Picard v. Robinson, 2016-Ohio-1044.]

COURT OF APPEALS 

RICHLAND COUNTY, OHIO 

FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT 

STATE OF OHIO, EX REL. 

JOHN S. PICARD 

 Relator 

-vsJUDGE BRENT ROBINSON 

 Respondent 

JUDGES: 

: Hon. W. Scott Gwin, P.J. 

: Hon. William B. Hoffman, J. 

: Hon. John W. Wise, J. 

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: Case No. 15CA38 

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: O P I N I O N 

CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING: Writ of Mandamus 

JUDGMENT: Granted 

DATE OF JUDGMENT ENTRY: March 14, 2016 

APPEARANCES: 

For Respondent For Relator 

BAMBI COUCH PAGE JOHN S. PICARD PRO SE 

Richland County Prosecutor #A572767 

38 South Park Street, 2nd Floor B.E.C.I. 

Mansfield, OH 44902 68518 Bannock Road 

 St. Clairsville, OH 43950 

 
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Gwin, P.J. 

{¶1} Relator, John S. Picard, has filed a Complaint for Writ of Mandamus and/or 

Procedendo requesting this Court order Respondent to issue a new sentencing entry. 

Relator was charged with numerous counts of sexual battery. His first case, Richland 

County Common Pleas Case Number 08-CR-545, involved two victims. His second case, 

Case Number 09-CR-111, involved another three victims. 

{¶2} Following trial, appellant was convicted of all charges and was sentenced 

to an aggregate term of 40 years in prison, with 5 years mandatory post-release control. 

The trial court issued separate sentencing entries for each case. The sentencing entry in 

Case Number 09-CR-111 was issued on September 4, 2009 and reads in part, “The 

defendant . . . shall pay restitution to the victims for counseling as submitted to the 

Richland County Clerk of Courts.” On the same date, the trial court issued two separate 

restitution orders: one in the amount of $2,183.80 and one in the amount of $516.00. 

These amounts represent restitution owed to separate victims in Case Number 09-CR111. 

{¶3} To confuse matters, these restitution orders contain both case numbers. 

After the instant petition was filed, the State requested a Nunc Pro Tunc entry be issued 

to remove the 2008 case number because the restitution has only been requested by two 

victims in the 2009 case number. 

{¶4} The requirements Relator must demonstrate to have this Court issue a writ 

are as follows: 

{¶5} In order for a court to issue a writ of mandamus, a relator must have a clear 

legal right to the relief prayed for, the respondent must have a clear legal duty to perform 
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the act requested, and the relator must have no plain and adequate remedy at law. State 

ex rel. Husted v. Brunner, 123 Ohio St.3d 288, 2009-Ohio-5327, 915 N.E.2d 1215, at ¶ 

8. 

{¶6} To be entitled to a writ of procedendo, “a relator must establish a clear legal 

right to require the court to proceed, a clear legal duty on the part of the court to proceed, 

and the lack of an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.” State ex rel. Miley v. 

Parrott, 77 Ohio St.3d 64, 65, 1996-Ohio-350, 671 N.E.2d 24. 

{¶7} “[P]rocedendo and mandamus will lie when a trial court has refused to 

render, or unduly delayed rendering, a judgment.” State ex rel. Reynolds v. Basinger, 99 

Ohio St.3d 303, 2003-Ohio-3631, 791 N.E.2d 459, at ¶ 5. See, also, Culgan, supra, at ¶ 

8; State ex rel. Agosto v. Cuyahoga Cty. Court of Common Pleas, 119 Ohio St.3d 366, 

2008-Ohio-4607, 894 N.E.2d 314, at ¶ 8. 

{¶8} Relator argues he is entitled to one document as his sentencing entry as 

required by State v. Baker and State v. Lester. The State argues Baker and Lester merely 

require “a” sentence and not necessarily the entire sentence to be a final order. We do 

not find Respondent’s argument persuasive. 

{¶9} An order of restitution imposed by the sentencing court on an offender for a 

felony is part of the sentence. State v. Riggs, 5th Dist. Licking No. 2009 CA 00041, 2009-

Ohio-6821, ¶ 30. 

{¶10} Further, multiple entries cannot be read together to comprise one final order 

because, under the Ohio Supreme Court Baker decision, only one document could 

constitute a final, appealable order. State v. Riggs, 5th Dist. Licking No. 2009 CA 00041, 

2009-Ohio-6821, ¶ 31. 
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{¶11} We find the trial court has not issued a final, appealable order because it 

has not issued one single judgment entry containing the entire sentence along with the 

other requirements of Crim.R.32. 

{¶12} The appropriate remedy for a trial court's failure to comply with Crim.R. 

32(C) and Baker is a correction of the sentencing entry. Id. at ¶ 10, 893 N.E.2d 163; 

McAllister v. Smith, 119 Ohio St.3d 163, 2008-Ohio-3881, 892 N.E.2d 914, at ¶ 7; Culgan,

supra, at ¶ 11. 

{¶13} Appellee’s concern is that Appellant has already obtained appellate review 

of his conviction and sentence. “The Ohio Supreme Court concluded that [a] defendant 

[is] entitled to a new sentencing entry irrespective of prior appellate review, because the 

original sentencing entry did not constitute a final appealable order. Id. at ¶ 10-11, 895 

N.E.2d 805.” State ex rel. Moore v. Krichbaum, 7th Dist. Mahoning No. 09 MA 201, 2010-

Ohio-1541, ¶ 13. 
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{¶14} We grant the writ of mandamus and remand this matter to the trial court for 

the purpose of having the trial court correct the judgment entry of conviction and sentence 

by including the entire sentence in one document. 

By Gwin, P.J., 

Hoffman, J., and 

Wise, J., concur