COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 76943
STATE OF OHIO ex rel.         :
ARTHUR L. O'NEAL              :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 11814
                              :
JUDGE TIMOTHY McCORMICK       :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :    DECEMBER 2, 1999
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           ARTHUR L. O'NEAL, pro se
                              Post Office Box 5600
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44101
For respondent    :           WILLIAM D. MASON
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              RENO J. ORADINI, JR., Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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JAMES M. PORTER, A.J.
     Relator, Arthur L. O'Neal, seeks a writ of mandamus in order
to compel  the respondent, Judge  Timothy McCormick,  to rule  on
pretrial motions that were filed in the underlying case of State v.
O'Neal, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Case No. CR-378531.
The respondent has filed a motion for summary judgment, which  we
grant for the following reasons.
     Attached to the respondent's motion for summary judgment is a
copy of a journal entry,  as journalized on July 22, 1999,  which
demonstrates  that the relator  entered a plea  of guilty to  the
charged offenses of robbery, kidnapping, receiving stolen property,
impersonating a police  officer or private policeman,  possessing
criminal tools, and failure to comply with an order or signal of a
police officer.   The  journal entry  of July  22, 1999,  further
indicates that the relator was sentenced to incarceration  within
the Lorain Correctional Institution for a period of forty-two (42)
months. Thus, the relator's request for a writ of mandamus, which
requires the respondent to rule on all pending pretrial motions, is
moot. Cf. State ex rel. Snider v. Stapleton (1992), 65 Ohio St.3d
40; State ex rel. Richard v. Wells (1992), 64 Ohio St.3d 76.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion for  summary
judgment.
     Writ denied.
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ANN DYKE, J., CONCURS
                                     JAMES M. PORTER
                                   ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE
.