State Ex Rel. McKinney v. Defiance County Court of Common Pleas , 123 Ohio St. 3d 153 ( 2009 )

[Cite as State ex rel. McKinney v. Defiance Cty. Court of Common Pleas, 123 Ohio St. 3d 153,
2009-Ohio-4693.]
THE STATE EX REL. MCKINNEY, APPELLANT, v.
DEFIANCE COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APPELLEE.
[Cite as State ex rel. McKinney v. Defiance Cty. Court of Common Pleas,
123 Ohio St. 3d 153, 2009-Ohio-4693.]
Mandamus — Adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law — Writ denied.
(No. 2009-0523 ─ Submitted September 2, 2009 ─ Decided September 16, 2009.)
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Defiance County,
No. 4-09-01.
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Per Curiam.
{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the
petition of appellant, Daniel P. McKinney, for a writ of mandamus to compel
appellee, Defiance County Court of Common Pleas, to issue findings of fact and
conclusions of law on the court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief.
Mandamus will not issue to compel an act that has already been performed. State
ex rel. Madsen v. Foley Jones, 106 Ohio St. 3d 178, 2005-Ohio-4381, 833 N.E.2d
291, ¶ 11. The common pleas court issued the requisite findings of fact and
conclusions of law in February 2005. McKinney had an adequate remedy at law
by appeal from that judgment to raise his claim that the common pleas court erred
in not reviewing a hearing transcript. And even if McKinney is correct that the
clerk did not properly serve notice of the judgment on him, he is not entitled to
the requested extraordinary relief in mandamus, because he had adequate
remedies in the ordinary course of law by delayed appeal and a motion for relief
from judgment to raise this claim. State ex rel. Halder v. Fuerst, 118 Ohio St. 3d
142, 2008-Ohio-1968, 886 N.E.2d 849, ¶ 7. We also deny McKinney’s motion to
strike the common pleas court’s brief.
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO
Judgment affirmed.
MOYER, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR,
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur.
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Daniel McKinney, pro se.
Morris J. Murray, Defiance County Prosecuting Attorney, and Russell R.
Herman, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.
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