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Date Created: 2014-08-01 20:49:47.435837+00
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[Cite as Pesci v. Goodrich, 133 Ohio St. 3d 227, 2012-Ohio-4540.]

         PESCI, APPELLANT, v. GOODRICH,1 WARDEN, ET AL., APPELLEES.
        [Cite as Pesci v. Goodrich, 133 Ohio St. 3d 227, 2012-Ohio-4540.]
Appellate procedure—Untimely appeal dismissed—S.Ct.Prac.R. 2.2(A)(1).
             (No. 2012-0987—Submitted September 25, 2012—Decided
                                       October 3, 2012.)
   APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Ashtabula County, No. 2011-A-0049.
                                    __________________
         Per Curiam.
         {¶ 1} We dismiss the appeal of appellant, James Pesci, from the
judgment of the court of appeals dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas
corpus because he failed to file a timely notice of appeal from the judgment.
S.Ct.Prac.R. 2.2(A)(1)(a) (“To perfect an appeal from a court of appeals to the
Supreme Court, * * * the appellant shall file a notice of appeal in the Supreme
Court within forty-five days from the entry of the judgment being appealed”).
Pesci’s Civ.R. 60(B) motion for relief from judgment did not extend his time to
appeal the judgment, and Pesci could not use Civ.R. 60(B) as a substitute for a
timely appeal. State ex rel. Manuel v. Stenson, 126 Ohio St. 3d 52, 2010-Ohio-
2673, 930 N.E.2d 310, citing State ex rel. Martin v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth., 124
Ohio St. 3d 63, 2009-Ohio-6164, 918 N.E.2d 1005.
                                                                             Appeal dismissed.
         O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL,
LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur.
                                    __________________
         James Pesci, pro se.
                                 ______________________

1. Since this case was instituted, Barry Goodrich has succeeded Richard Gansheimer as the
warden of Lake Erie Correctional Institution and is substituted as a party in this appeal. See State
ex rel. Cincinnati Enquirer v. Craig, 132 Ohio St. 3d 68, 2012-Ohio-1999, 969 N.E.2d 243, fn. 1;
see also Civ.R. 25(D)(1).