COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 78949
STATE OF OHIO EX REL.         :
KENNETH JACKSON               :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
                              :    HABEAS CORPUS
                              :
     PETITIONER               :    MOTION NO. 23419
                              :
v.                            :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
                              :
GARY CRAFT, WARDEN L.C.I.,    :
ET AL.                        :
                              :
     RESPONDENT               :
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:       DECEMBER 12, 2000
JUDGMENT:                     DISMISSED.
APPEARANCES:
For Petitioner:               Kenneth Jackson, pro se
                              Inmate No. A396-471
                              Lorain Correctional Institution
                              2075 South Avon-Belden Road
                              Grafton, OH 44044
For Respondents:              Betty D. Montgomery, Esq.
                              Attorney General of Ohio
                              30 East Broad Street
                              Columbus, OH 43266-0410
                              William D. Mason, Esq.
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              Justice Center - 8th Floor
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, OH 44113
TIMOTHY E. McMONAGLE, J.:
     Kenneth Jackson, petitioner, filed  an  Original Action  for
Writ of Habeas Corpus seeking release from prison by way of habeas
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corpus.   We dismiss the petition  sua sponte because this  court
lacks  jurisdiction to  entertain  petitioner's claim  since  the
petitioner is incarcerated at the Lorain Correctional Institution
in Grafton, Ohio, and is not in the custody of any authority that
is located within Cuyahoga County.  See R.C. 2725.03; Bridges  v.
McMackin(1989), 44 Ohio St.3d 135, 541 N.E.2d 1035; State ex rel.
Dixon  v.  Gold (1991),  76  Ohio  App.3d 518,  602  N.E.2d  408.
Accordingly, case is dismissed.
     The clerk of  court is to serve  notice upon the parties  as
provided in  Civ.R. 58(B).   Costs  of this  action are  assessed
against petitioner.
                         TIMOTHY E. McMONAGLE, JUDGE
DYKE, A.J. and
KARPINSKI, J., CONCUR.
 
 
 
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