Opinion

State ex rel. Nickleson v. Mayberry

  • 131 Ohio St. 3d 416
  • 2012 Ohio 1300
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 29, 2012
Status
Published
On the bench
O'Connor, Pfeifer, Stratton, O'Donnell, Lanzinger, Cupp, Brown
Cited by
7 cases
Authority
More cited than 82.2%

The opinion

[Cite as State ex rel. Nickleson v. Mayberry, 131 Ohio St.3d 416, 2012-Ohio-1300.]

STATE EX REL. NICKLESON, APPELLANT, v. MAYBERRY, JUDGE, APPELLEE.

[Cite as State ex rel. Nickleson v. Mayberry,

131 Ohio St.3d 416, 2012-Ohio-1300.]

Court of appeals’ judgment dismissing complaint for writ of mandamus affirmed.

(No. 2011-1780—Submitted March 21, 2012—Decided March 29, 2012.)

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Wood County,

No. WD-11-039, 2011-Ohio-4494.

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Per Curiam.

{¶ 1} We affirm the court of appeals’ judgment dismissing the complaint

of appellant, Roland Nickleson, for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee,

Wood County Court of Common Pleas Judge Alan Mayberry, to issue a final,

appealable order in his criminal case. Notwithstanding Nickleson’s claims, his

sentencing entry was a final, appealable order because it contained a full

resolution of all the counts of his indictment for which there were convictions.

State ex rel. Davis v. Cuyahoga Cty. Court of Common Pleas, 127 Ohio St.3d 29,

2010-Ohio-4728, 936 N.E.2d 41, ¶ 2; State ex rel. Rose v. McGinty, 128 Ohio

St.3d 371, 2011-Ohio-761, 944 N.E.2d 672, ¶ 2-3.

{¶ 2} Moreover, Nickleson has or had an adequate remedy by appeal

from his sentencing entry to raise his other claims contesting the validity of the

indictment, the propriety of the jury instructions, and the sufficiency of the

evidence supporting his convictions. State ex rel. Simpson v. Cooper, 120 Ohio

St.3d 297, 2008-Ohio-6110, 898 N.E.2d 936, ¶ 6 (mandamus petitioner had

adequate remedy at law by direct appeal to raise his challenge to the validity or

sufficiency of his indictment); Smith v. Mitchell, 80 Ohio St.3d 624, 625, 687

N.E.2d 749 (1998) (habeas corpus petitioner had adequate remedy at law by direct

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appeal to raise his claim of erroneous jury instructions); Webber v. Kelly, 120

Ohio St.3d 440, 2008-Ohio-6695, 900 N.E.2d 175, ¶ 7-9 (habeas corpus petitioner

had adequate remedy at law by direct appeal to raise his claim concerning the

sufficiency of the evidence); State ex rel. Voleck v. Powhatan Point, 127 Ohio

St.3d 299, 2010-Ohio-5679, 939 N.E.2d 819, ¶ 7 (“Mandamus will not issue

when the relators have an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law”); R.C.

2731.05.

{¶ 3} Finally, we deny appellant’s S.Ct.Prac.R. 6.7(B) request to accept

his statement of facts and issues as correct and reverse the judgment, because his

brief does not reasonably appear to sustain reversal.

Judgment affirmed.

O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL,

LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur.

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Roland Nickleson, pro se.

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