State ex rel. Randlett v. Lynch
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus sought by Appellant to compel Judge Julie M. Lynch to vacate certain nunc pro tunc entries, holding that Appellant was not entitled to the writ.
Appellant was sentenced in 2003 on more than sixty felony counts involving crimes he committed in four separate cases. This appeal involved three cases that included offenses Appellant committed after postrelease control became part of Ohio's sentencing scheme in 1996. Prior to Appellant's release from prison in 2020, Judge Lynch issued the nunc pro tunc entries at issue, which corrected some of Appellant's sentencing entries to include references to the imposition of a mandatory five-year term of postrelease control. Appellant brought this action seeking a writ of mandamus to compel Judge Lynch to vacate the entries. The court of appeals denied the writ. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Appellant did not have a clear legal right to relief in mandamus.
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