Court Opinion

ID: 3708391
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:44:12.030394+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:03.977359
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JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
The relator, Henry Lewis, has filed a complaint for a writ of mandamus. The relator seeks an order from this Court which requires the named respondent, Gerald Fuerst, Clerk of Courts, to grant jail-time credit in the underlying cases of State v. Lewis, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Case Nos. CR-397575 and CR-400408. The respondent has filed a motion for summary judgment.
The relator's request for a writ of mandamus must fail since the respondent, as the Clerk of Courts for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, possesses no legal duty to grant jail-time credit. Such duty strictly lies with the trial judge that originally imposed the sentence of incarceration in State v. Lewis, supra. Cf. State ex rel.Corder v. Wilson (1991), 68 Ohio App.3d 567, 589 N.E.2d 113; State exrel. Johnson v. O'Donnell (Oct. 4, 1994), Cuyahoga App. No. 67783, unreported. In addition, attached to the respondent's motion for summary judgment are copies of two judgments, as journalized on September 17, 2001, which demonstrate that the relator has been granted jail-time credit in both CR-397575 and CR-400408. Thus, the relator's request for a writ of mandamus is also moot. State ex rel. Gantt v. Coleman (1983),6 Ohio St.3d 5, 450 N.E.2d 1163; State ex rel. Jerningham v. CuyahogaCounty Court of Common Pleas (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 278, 658 N.E.2d 723.
Accordingly, we grant the respondent's motion for summary judgment. Costs to relator. It is further ordered that the Clerk of the Eighth District Court of Appeals shall serve upon all parties, pursuant to Civ.R. 58(B), notice of this judgment and date of entry.
Writ denied.
ANNE E. KILBANE, J., and JAMES J. SWEENEY, J., CONCUR.