COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            No. 78110
CITY OF CLEVELAND             :
                              :       JOURNAL ENTRY
     Plaintiff-Appellee       :
                              :           AND
     vs.                      :
                              :         OPINION
SARUNAS ABRAITIS              :
                              :
     Defendant-Appellant      :
                              :
                              :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    SEPTEMBER 27, 2001
                              :
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDINGS      :    Criminal appeal from
                              :    Cleveland Municipal Court
                              :    Case No. 2000TRD 028478
                              :
JUDGMENT                      :    DISMISSED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For plaintiff-appellee:       LAUREN C. MOORE, ESQ.
                              Chief Prosecutor
                              City of Cleveland
                              The Justice Center - 8th Floor
                              Cleveland, Ohio 44113
For defendant-appellant:      SARUNAS ABRAITIS, pro se
                              90 East 212th Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio 44123
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TERRENCE O'DONNELL, J.:
     Sarunas Abraitis appeals from a final judgment of conviction
entered  on  April  12,  2000.   Appellant  filed  a  motion  for
reconsideration on April 14, 2000, which the trial court denied on
May 15, 2000.  Subsequently,  on May 31, 2000, appellant filed  a
notice of appeal.
     A motion for reconsideration is not provided for in the Rules
of  Criminal Procedure and  is therefore a  nullity and does  not
suspend the time for filing a notice of appeal.  Accord, e.g., In
re Grand Jury (June 1, 1995), Washington App.No. 93CA09,  93CA10,
93CA12, unreported; State v.  Marini (June 29, 1998),  Tuscarawas
App.Nos. 97 AP 020016 & 97 AP 120082, unreported; see, also, Pitts
v. Dept. of  Transportation (1981), 67  Ohio St.2d 378,  379-381.
Therefore, appellant has failed to file a timely notice of appeal
pursuant to App.R. 4(A).
     Appeal dismissed.
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     It is ordered that appellee recover of appellant costs herein
taxed.
     A certified copy of  this entry shall constitute the mandate
pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure.
JAMES D. SWEENEY, P.J., AND
ANN DYKE, J.,        CONCUR.
                                       TERRENCE O'DONNELL
                                             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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