COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 75474
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
RICHARD PALMER                :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 1934
                              :
JUDITH KILBANE KOCH           :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :    JANUARY 14, 1999
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           WALTER CAMINO
                              1200 West Third Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
For respondent    :           CARMEN MARINO
                              Acting Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              ERIKA RITT, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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JAMES M. PORTER, A.J.:
     Realtor, Richard Palmer, seeks a writ of mandamus in order to
compel the respondent, Judge Judith Kilbane Koch, to render rulings
with regard to several motions that were filed in the  underlying
cases of State v.  Palmer, Cuyahoga County Court of Common  Pleas
Case No. CR-366601; State v. Palmer, Cuyahoga County Case No. CR-
366461; State v. Palmer, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Case
No. CR-366460; and State v. Palmer, Cuyahoga County Court of Common
Pleas Case No. CR-367430.  The respondent has filed a motion  for
summary judgment.
     Attached to the respondent's motion for summary judgment is a
copy of  a judgment, as journalized  on November 24, 1998,  which
demonstrates that the relator's motions have been ruled upon  and
disposed.  Thus, the respondent's petition for a writ of mandamus
is moot.  State ex rel. Gantt v. Coleman (1983), 6 Ohio  St.3d 5;
State ex rel. Jerningham v. Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
(1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 278.
     Accordingly, the respondent's motion for summary judgment is
granted.  Costs to relator.
     Writ denied.
ANN DYKE, J.  CONCURRING
.