COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 73878
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
SAMUEL McCALL                 :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 92613
                              :
PRESIDING JUDGE               :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
RICHARD J. McMONAGLE          :
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    MARCH 19, 1998
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           SAMUEL McCALL, pro se
                              #313-482
                              B.E.C.I.
                              Post Office Box 540
                              St,. Clairsville, Ohio  43950
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              MACY LEE, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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PATRICIA A. BLACKMON,A.J.:
     Relator, Samuel McCall, seeks a writ of mandamus in order to
compel the respondent,  Judge Richard McMonagle,  to rule on  his
 motion to  correct and vacate  sentences  and   motion to  amend
previous motion  to correct  and vacate  sentences   as filed  in
Cuyahoga County  Common Pleas Case  Nos. CR-57459, 58784,  15216,
17088, 21959, 22119, 256152, 326248, and 326248.  The  respondent
has filed a motion for  summary judgment, which we grant for  the
following reasons.
     In State ex rel.  Adkins v. Judge Aurelius (Mar. 27,  1997),
Cuyahoga App. No. 71763, unreported, this court held that:
          *** a writ of mandamus will not be issued when
          an adequate remedy at law exists for obtaining
          the relief sought.  R.C. 2731.05.  Relator has
          an adequate remedy in this case via a petition
          for a writ of procedendo.  This court has held
          that when a dispositive motion has been filed
          without resolution for an inordinate amount of
          time,  the writ  of  procedendo is  the  more
          appropriate remedy to pursue.
Id. at 2.
     In addition, procedendo would not issue at this time because
an inordinate period of time has not lapsed since the relator filed
his motions  in the  underlying criminal  cases.   State ex  rel.
Richard  v. Calabrese (1993),  66 Ohio St.3d  193; State ex  rel.
Rodgers v. Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas (1992), 83  Ohio
App.3d 684; State ex rel. Taylor v. Judge Corrigan (Apr. 3, 1997),
Cuyahoga App. No. 72103, unreported.
     Accordingly, the respondent's motion for summary judgment is
granted.  Costs to relator.
     Writ denied.
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JAMES M. PORTER, J., CONCURS
                                   PATRICIA A. BLACKMON
                                   ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE
.