COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                                 COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                                     NO. 72713
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          STATE OF OHIO EX REL.           :  PETITION FOR WRIT OF
          WILLIE J. BROWN                 :  MANDAMUS
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                         Relator          :  MOTION NO. 91180
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               -vs-                       :
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          MAYOR, VILLAGE OF LINNDALE,     :  JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
          ET AL.                          :
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                         Respondent       :
          DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT                    February 12, 1998
          OF DECISION:
          JUDGMENT:                       WRIT DISMISSED.
          DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:
          APPEARANCES:
          For Relator:                    For Respondent:
          WILLIE J. BROWN, Pro Se         JAMES M.DUBELKO, Solicitor
          No. 310-171                     Village of Linndale
          Belmont Correctional Inst.      23823 Lorain Road, Suite 200
          P. O. Box 540                   North Olmsted, Ohio 44070
          St. Clairsville, Ohio 44070
          PATRICIA A. BLACKMON, A.J.:
               The relator, Willie  Brown, commenced  this mandamus  action
          against the respondents, the Mayor of the Village of Linndale and
          the Clerk of the Village of Linndale Mayor's Court to compel  the
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          mayor to reinstate his  Request for Disposition  of three traffic
          citations or to compel the clerk to file an appeal with the Parma
          Municipal Court.  For the following reasons, this court rules that
          this writ action is moot.
               In his complaint Mr. Brown alleges that he is in prison  and
          that he  had three traffic citations  pending against him in  the
          Village of Linndale Mayor's Court.  Pursuant to R.C. 2941.401  he
          filed a   Notice of Place of  Imprisonment and Request for  Final
          Disposition of Untried Complaints  with the mayor's court.  In  a
          journal entry the mayor denied the request on the grounds that the
          request was incomplete.  Mr. Brown then submitted to the clerk of
          the mayor's court a notice of appeal to the Parma Municipal Court
          of the denial  of his R.C. 2941.401  request.  Mr. Brown  finally
          asserted that the clerk had not delivered the notice of appeal to
          the municipal court.
               However, a file-stamped journal entry from the Parma Municipal
          Court (a copy of which is attached hereto) establishes that  this
          matter is moot.   In Village of  Linndale v. Willie Brown,  Parma
          Municipal Court Case No. 97-Tr-D-9616(3), the court ruled that Mr.
          Brown complied with the requirements of R.C. 2941.401 and that if
          a state  employee failed  to mail certain  documents in a  timely
          manner, that failure should not  be held against Mr. Brown.   The
          municipal  court then ruled  that the appeal  is granted and  the
          within case is dismissed.  The 3 in parentheses in the case number
          indicates  that  all three  traffic  citations  were  before  the
          municipal  court  and  that  all  three  cases  were   dismissed.
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          Accordingly, this matter is entirely moot.  The traffic citations
          are no longer pending against Mr. Brown.
               Alternatively, Mr. Brown's first claim for mandamus, to compel
          the mayor's court to vacate its entry and reinstate his request, is
          not  well  taken.   Mandamus  does  not lie  to  review  judicial
          decisions.    To  do  so would  be  to  interfere  with  judicial
          discretion, which  mandamus  may not  do,  even if  the  judicial
          discretion is grossly abused. State ex rel. Ney v. Niehaus (1987),
          33 Ohio St.3d 118, 515 N.E.2d  914.  Mr. Brown's second claim  to
          compel the clerk to file the notice of appeal is obviously  moot.
          The attached journal entry establishes that the notice of  appeal
          was filed, and thus, Mr. Brown received his requested relief.
               Accordingly, this writ  action is dismissed.  State ex  rel.
          Pressley v. Ohio Industrial Commission (1967), 11 Ohio St. 141, 228
          N.E.2d 631; State ex rel. Mettler v. Stratton (1941), 139 Ohio St.
          86, 38 N.E.2d 393 and State ex rel. Bennett v. Lime (1978), 55 Ohio
          St.2d 62, 378 N.E.2d 62.  Costs assessed against relator.
          JAMES M. PORTER, J., AND
          JOSEPH J. NAHRA, J., CONCUR
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