COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 72738
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
ABDUL SHARIF                  :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 85783
                              :
NANCY R. McDONNELL, JUDGE     :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    AUGUST 14, 1997
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DISMISSED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           ABDUL SHARIF, pro se
                              #212-173
                              Post Office Box 1812
                              Marion, Ohio  43301
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              RANDI MARIE OSTRY, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
                               -2-
JAMES D. SWEENEY, C.J.:
     Relator, Abdul Sharif, seeks a writ of mandamus in order  to
verify the grand jury  minutes and approve the indictment in  the
underlying case of State v. Sharif, Cuyahoga Common Pleas Case No.
CR-238403.   The respondent, Stephanie  Tubbs-Jones, has filed  a
motion to dismiss the relator's petition for a writ of mandamus.
     The relator's petition for a writ of mandamus is duplicative
of the petition for a writ of mandamus as previously filed in State
ex  rel. Sharif  v. Cuyahoga  County Prosecutor  (Mar. 6,  1997),
Cuyahoga App.  No. 71836, unreported.   The  identical issues  of
verification of grand jury minutes and approval of the indictment
were previously raised and found to be without merit.  The doctrine
of res judicata prevents further examination of these issues.  See,
generally, State v. Perry (1967), 10 Ohio St.2d 175.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion to  dismiss.
Costs to relator.
     Writ dismissed.
.