COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 75393
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
PATRICK HUNTER                :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 806
                              :
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DISMISSED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :    NOVEMBER 25, 1998
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           PATRICK HUNTER, pro se
                              #322-916
                              L.C.I.E.
                              Post Office Box 56
                              Lebanon, Ohio  45036
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              ERIKA RITT, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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PATRICIA A. BLACKMON,A.J.:
     Relator, Patrick Hunter, seeks a writ of mandamus in order to
compel the respondent, Gerald E. Fuerst, Clerk of Courts of Cuya-
hoga County, to produce copies of the following documents,  which
are related to the  underlying case of State v. Hunter,  Cuyahoga
County Court  of Common Pleas Case  No. CR-335201: 1) arrest  and
investigation reports; 2) complaints and affidavits; 3) Municipal
Court journal entries; 4) grand jury report; 5) jury verdict forms;
6) photo  array and booking slip;  7) statements made by  Michael
Normile and Robert Henderson; and 8) Scientific Investigation Unit
report.  The respondent has filed a motion to dismiss, which this
Court grants for the following reasons.
     The relator,  in  essence, seeks  records pursuant  to  R.C.
149.43.   The  respondent, however,  possesses no  legal duty  to
respond to a request for public records as made by mail and further
possesses no legal duty to provide public records by mail.  State
ex rel. Fenley v.  Ohio Historical Society (1993), 67 Ohio  St.3d
438; State ex rel. Nelson v. Fuerst (1993), 66 Ohio St.3d 47.  See,
also, State ex rel. Nelson  v. Tubbs Jones (1993), 67 Ohio  St.3d
438. In addition, a defendant in a criminal case who has exhausted
the  direct appeals of  his conviction may  not avail himself  or
herself of R.C.  149.43 to support a petition for  postconviction
relief.  State ex rel. Steckman v. Jackson (1994), 70 Ohio  St.3d
420, paragraph six of the syllabus.
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     Accordingly, the respondent's motion to dismiss is  granted.
Costs to relator.
     Writ dismissed.
JAMES M. PORTER, J., CONCURS
.