State ex rel. Johnson v. McClelland
Annotate this CaseIn 1976, Appellant was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death. The court of appeals affirmed the sentence. The Supreme Court reversed and modified Appellant’s death sentence to life in prison based on Lockett v. Ohio and Bell v. Ohio. In 1998 and 2007, Appellant filed petitions for writ of habeas corpus, which the court of appeals dismissed. In 2013, Appellant filed the instant complaint for a writ of mandamus and/or procedendo asserting that he should have been returned to the common pleas court for resentencing after his death sentence was modified. The court of appeals dismissed the complaint. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the case was res judicata, as Appellant unsuccessfully made all these arguments in previous actions.
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