COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 76750
STATE OF OHIO ex rel.         :
MICHAEL FULLER                :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 10587
                              :
CAROLYN B. FRIEDLAND, JUDGE   :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :    OCTOBER 14, 1999
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           MICHAEL FULLER, pro se
                              #257-390
                              Post Office Box 788
                              Mansfield, Ohio  44901-0788
For respondent    :           WILLIAM D. MASON
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              LISA REITZ WILLIAMSON, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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JAMES M. PORTER, A.J.
     Relator, Michael Fuller, seeks a writ of mandamus in order to
compel the  respondent,  Judge  Carolyn B.  Friedland,  to  issue
findings of fact and conclusions of law with regard to  petitions
for postconviction relief that were filed in the underlying cases
of State v. Fuller, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Case Nos.
CR-276787 and CR-277973.   The respondent has filed a motion  for
summary judgment, which we grant for the following reasons.
     The underlying motions, as filed by the relator on March 30,
1999, represent successive  petitions for postconviction  relief.
The respondent, however,  possesses no clear  legal duty to  file
findings of fact and conclusions of law with regard to successive
petitions for postconviction relief.  See State ex rel. White  v.
Goldsberry (1996),  76 Ohio  St.3d  217; State  ex rel.  Luna  v.
McGimpsey  (1996), 74  Ohio  St.3d  485.   Since  the  respondent
possesses discretion to issue findings of fact and conclusions of
law and the relator possesses an adequate remedy at law through a
direct appeal,  mandamus does  not lie  to compel  the filing  of
findings of fact and conclusions of law.  State ex rel. Jennings v.
Nurre (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 596.
     It must also be noted that the relator has failed to  comply
with Loc.App.R. 45(B)(1)(a), which mandates that a complaint in an
original action   must  be  supported by  an affidavit  from  the
plaintiff or relator specifying the details of the claim .  Failure
to  provide  this court  with  a  supporting  affidavit  warrants
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dismissal. State ex rel. Sherrills v. Court of Common Pleas (Dec.
1, 1995), Cuyahoga App. No. 69707, unreported.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion for  summary
judgment.  Costs to relator.
     Writ denied.
ANN DYKE, J., CONCURS
.