State ex rel. Barnette v. Chambers-Smith

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 1571

Syllabus

MANDAMUS — SENTENCE COMPUTATION – R.C. 2929.191: On petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (\ODRC\) to modify its computation of relator's aggregate prison sentence of life without parole, the magistrate properly found that, contrary to relator's argument otherwise, the 2020 decision of the Seventh District Court of Appeals reversing and vacating the trial court's 2019 sua sponte imposition of post-release control for kidnapping convictions through an improperly termed \resentencing\ hearing had no impact on the trial court's 2011 judgment imposing two sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for two counts of aggravated murder, which was affirmed on direct appeal in 2014. As such, relator failed to establish, as a matter of law, a clear legal right to the requested relief or that respondent was under a clear legal duty to provide it. Writ denied.