COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 72464
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
TIMOTHY ADKINS                :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    PROCEDENDO
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 85288
                              :
JUDGE WILLIAM AURELIUS        :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    AUGUST 14, 1997
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           TIMOTHY J. ADKINS, pro se
                              #197-260
                              Orient Correctional Institution
                              Post Office Box 511
                              Columbus, Ohio  43216
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              SHERRY F. McCREARY, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
                                2
JAMES D. SWEENEY, C.J.:
     Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment based on mootness is
granted.  Respondent  denied relator's Request for Leave to  File
Motion for a New Trial and the Motion for New Trial on the Basis of
Newly-Discovered Evidence in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Case No.
CR-214914 on June 24, 1997.  Costs to respondent.
     Writ denied.
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