COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 78951
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
DEWIGHT WHITE                 :
                              :
               Relator        :         JOURNAL ENTRY
                              :              and
     vs.                      :            OPINION
                              :
RONALD SUSTER, JUDGE          :
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
               Respondent     :
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING       :    WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                              :    (Motion No. 24558)
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :    JANUARY 29, 2001
APPEARANCES:
For relator    :              DEWIGHT WHITE, pro se
                              S.O.C.F.
                              #331-976
                              Post Office Box 45699
                              Lucasville, Ohio  45699-0001
For respondent :              WILLIAM D. MASON
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              DIANE SMILANICK, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
KENNETH A. ROCCO, P.J.
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     The relator, Dewight White, has filed a complaint for a writ
of mandamus.   The relator  seeks an order  from this court  that
requires the respondent,  Judge Ronald Suster, to issue a  ruling
with regard to a motion to correct judgment entry of sentence  as
filed in the underlying  case of State v. White, Cuyahoga  County
Court of Common Pleas Case No. CR-333432.  The respondent has filed
a motion for summary judgment.
     Attached to the respondent's motion for summary judgment is a
copy of a journal entry, as journalized on December 19, 2000, which
denied the relator's motion to correct judgment entry of sentence.
Thus, the relator's request for a writ of mandamus is moot.  State
ex rel. Gantt v.  Coleman (1983), 6 Ohio  St.3d 5; State ex  rel.
Jerningham v. Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas (1996), 74 Ohio
St.3d 278. In addition, mandamus does not lie to compel correction
of the  sentence  imposed by  the  respondent since  the  relator
possesses or possessed an adequate remedy at law through a direct
appeal. State ex rel. Jennings v. Nurre (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 596;
State ex rel. Bardo v. Lyndhurst (1988), 37 Ohio St.3d 106; State
ex rel. Westchester Estates, Inc. v. Bacon (1980), 61 Ohio  St.2d
42.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion for  summary
judgment.  Clerk to serve  notices to all parties as provided  in
Civ.R. 58(B).  Costs to relator.
     Writ denied.
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MICHAEL J. CORRIGAN, J.  CONCURS
PATRICIA A. BLACKMON, J. CONCURS
                                           KENNETH A. ROCCO
                                           PRESIDING JUDGE
 
 
 
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