Williams v. Hamilton Cty. Prosecutor

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 3298

Syllabus

DECLARATORY JUDGMENT — JUSTICIABILITY — DISMISSAL: Where plaintiff's complaint for a declaratory judgment did not satisfy the justiciability requirement of presenting a live controversy, the trial court did not err in dismissing the action for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted: a collateral attack on a criminal conviction does not present a live controversy but instead asks the court to determine whether rights that were previously adjudicated were properly adjudicated and a declaratory judgment action cannot be used as a substitute for the remedies the Ohio criminal rules and statutes provide for direct review of criminal judgments.