COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 75514
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
JOHNNY RAY FULLER             :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 2643
                              :
KATHLEEN ANN SUTULA, JUDGE    :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :    JANUARY 28, 1999
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           JOHNNY RAY FULLER, pro se
                              #A190-634
                              Post Office Box 5500
                              Chillicothe, Ohio  45601
For respondent    :           WILLIAM A. MASON
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              RANDI MARIE OSTRY, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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JAMES M. PORTER, A.J.
     Relator, Johnny Ray Fuller, seeks a writ of mandamus in order
to compel the respondent, Judge Kathleen Ann Sutula, to issue find-
ings of fact and conclusions of law with regard to a second peti-
tion for postconviction relief that was filed and overruled in the
underlying case of State v. Fuller, Cuyahoga County Court of Common
Pleas Case No. CR-203914.  The respondent has filed a motion  for
summary judgment.
     A review of the record in CR-203914 reveals that the relator's
initial petition for postconviction relief was denied, with find-
ings of fact and  conclusions of law, on  November 9, 1990.   The
relator's second petition for post-conviction relief was  denied,
without the benefit of findings of fact and conclusions of law, on
December 9, 1997.  The respondent, however, possesses no duty  to
issue findings  of fact  and conclusions  of law  with regard  to
successive petitions for postconviction relief.  State ex rel. Luna
v. McGimpsey (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 485; State ex rel. Jennings v.
Nurre (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d  596.  In addition, the relator  pos-
sessed an adequate legal remedy  at law through an appeal of  the
judgment that denied the second petition for postconviction relief.
R.C. 2953.23(B); State ex rel. Luna v. McGimpsey, supra, at 486.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion for  summary
judgment.  Costs to relator.
     Writ denied.
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ANN DYKE, J., CONCURS
.