COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 77747
IN RE: WILLIAM EFFORD           :
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                                :             OPINION
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DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION:                          OCTOBER 12, 2000
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING:        Civil appeal from
                                Juvenile Court Division
                                Common Pleas Court
                                Case No. 9912424
JUDGMENT:                       Dismissed.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:
APPEARANCES:
For Appellee:                   WILLIAM D. MASON
                                Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                                EDWARD O. FITZGERALD
                                STEVEN E. GALL
                                Assistant Prosecutors
                                8th Floor Justice Center
                                1200 Ontario Street
                                Cleveland, Ohio 44113
For Appellant:                  WILLIE L. GRIFFIN, ESQ.
                                861 East 143rd Street
                                Cleveland, Ohio 44110-3513
PATRICIA ANN BLACKMON, J.:
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     Sua sponte, this  appeal is dismissed for failure to  timely
file a  transcript of  the lower court  proceedings.  See  App.R.
11(C).   Absent a  transcript, this court  is unable to  properly
evaluate appellant's assignments of error.  Appellant has the duty
to  ensure that  the  record or  any  portions thereof  that  are
necessary to determine  the appeal are  filed with the  reviewing
court. State v. Gibson (Feb. 8, 2000), Richland App. No. 99-CA-59,
unreported, citing Rose Chevrolet, Inc. v. Adams (1988), 36  Ohio
St.3d 17, 19, 520 N.E.2d 564, 565-566.  See, also, State v. Render
(1975), 43 Ohio St.2d 17, 21, 330 N.E.2d 690, 693, citing Ford v.
Ideal Aluminum (1966), 7 Ohio  St.2d 9, 13, 218 N.E.2d 434,  436;
Crow v.  Brite Metal Treating  (1967), 9 Ohio  St.2d 63, 64,  223
N.E.2d 595,596.     The  law  in Ohio  is  clear that,  where  an
authenticated transcript  of  proceedings  in a  trial  court  is
necessary to  exemplify  the facts  which determined  the  issues
presented there,  its absence  requires a  reviewing court,  upon
appeal, to dismiss the appeal or affirm the judgment of the court
from which the appeal is taken.
     Judgment is dismissed.
     This appeal is dismissed.
     It is ordered that appellee recover from appellant its costs
herein taxed.
     A certified copy of this entry shall constitute the  mandate
pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rule of Appellate Procedure.
TERRENCE O'DONNELL, P.J., and
MICHAEL J. CORRIGAN, J., CONCUR.
                                         PATRICIA ANN BLACKMON
                                                 JUDGE
     N.B. This entry is an announcement of the court's  decision.
See App.R. 22(B),  22(D) and 26(A); Loc.App.R. 22. This  decision
will be journalized and will become the judgment and order of the
court pursuant to App.R. 22(E) unless a motion for reconsideration
with supporting brief, per App.R. 26(A), is filed within ten (10)
days of the announcement of the court's decision. The time period
for review by the Supreme Court of Ohio shall begin to run upon the
journalization of  this court's announcement  of decision by  the
clerk per  App.R.  22(E).  See, also,  S.Ct.Prac.R.  II,  Section
2(A)(1).
 
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