COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                           NO. 75499
STATE OF OHIO, EX REL.        :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
RONNIE G. WASHINGTON          :    MANDAMUS
                              :
               Relator        :    MOTION NO. 3432
                              :
          vs.                 :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
                              :
NANCY R. MCDONNELL, JUDGE     :
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
               Respondent     :
                              :
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION   :    FEBRUARY 11, 1999
JUDGMENT                 :    WRIT DENIED.
APPEARANCES:
For Relator              :    RONNIE G. WASHINGTON, Pro Se
                              No. 304-199
                              Trumbull Correctional Camp
                              P. O. Box 901 (TCC)
                              Leavittsburg, Ohio 44430
For Respondent           :    WILLIAM D. MASON,
                                Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              LISA REITZ WILLIAMSON, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio 44113
JAMES M. PORTER, A.J.:
     Relator is  the defendant in  State v. Washington,  Cuyahoga
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County  Court of Common  Pleas Case No.  CR-303213.  This  action
arises out of his  attempt to seek postconviction relief in  that
proceeding.
     In State ex  rel. Washington v.  McDonnell (Dec. 24,  1997),
Cuyahoga App. No. 73173, unreported, relator requested that  this
court compel respondent to reverse her nunc pro tunc order denying
his postconviction petition  in Case No. CR-303213.  Id. at 2.  In
Case  No. 73173,  we  summarized the  facts  which gave  rise  to
relator's claim for relief:
     On  May 14,  199[6], Judge  Gail Kane  issued an  order
     granting the postconviction petition.  However, she did
     not issue findings of fact and conclusions of law.  Later
     that summer she issued a nunc pro tunc order denying the
     postconviction  petition, but  again she  did not  file
     findings of fact and conclusions of law.  By July 1997,
     the respondent, Judge McDonnell, had assumed the  case.
     On July  29,  1997, she  issued  findings of  fact  and
     conclusions of law denying Mr. Washington's petition.
Id. at 3. In this action, relator requests  a fair and full review
regarding the  validity of the  nunc pro  tunc denying  Relator's
Petition to Vacate of [sic] Set Aside his Sentence.   Complaint, at
2 (capitalization and lack of italics in original).
     In Case No. 73173, relator argued that, after issuing the May
14, 1996 journal entry  granting his petition for  postconviction
relief, the  court of common pleas  did not have jurisdiction  to
 reverse   itself by later issuing  the nunc pro tunc entry.   We
rejected that argument and held that  the trial court was  within
its proper authority in issuing the nunc pro tunc order,  denying
the petition and  subsequently issuing the  findings of fact  and
conclusions of law also denying the petition.   Case No. 73173, at
                               -3-
4.   Accordingly,  we  granted respondent's  motion  for  summary
judgment in Case No. 73173 and denied relief in mandamus.
     Likewise, we grant the motion for summary judgment filed  on
behalf of respondent in this action.  In Case No. 73173, the same
relator brought an action in mandamus against the same respondent
challenging the propriety of the postconviction relief proceedings.
That is, this action is essentially duplicative of Case No. 73173.
In this action, relator requests  a fair and full review regarding
the validity of the nunc pro tunc denying  relator's request  for
postconviction relief.  Yet, in Case No. 73173, we held that  the
court of common pleas acted within its authority when it issued the
nunc  pro tunc  entry.   As a  consequence, the  doctrine of  res
judicata bars further  consideration of this action.  See,  e.g.,
State ex rel. Sharif v. McDonnell (Aug. 14, 1997), Cuyahoga  App.
No. 72738, unreported.
     Furthermore,  relator  failed  to  comply  with   Loc.App.R.
45(B)(1)(a) which requires that complaints in original actions  be
supported by an affidavit from the plaintiff or relator specifying
the details of the claim.
     Accordingly, respondent's  motion  for summary  judgment  is
granted.  Relator to pay costs.
     Writ denied.
ANN DYKE, J., CONCURS.
                              JAMES M. PORTER,
.