COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 79347
SONYA R. JACKSON              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
                              :    HABEAS CORPUS
     PETITIONER               :
                              :
v.                            :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
                              :
STATE OF OHIO                 :    MOTION NO. 26193
                              :
     RESPONDENT               :
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:       APRIL 4, 2001
JUDGMENT:                     DISMISSED.
APPEARANCES:
For Petitioner:               Sonya R. Jackson, pro se
                              Inmate No. 43722
                              1479 Collins Avenue
                              Marysville, OH 43040
For Respondent:               Betty D. Montgomery, Esq.
                              Attorney General of Ohio
                              State Office Tower - 16th Floor
                              30 East Broad Street
                              Columbus, OH 43266-0410
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TIMOTHY E. McMONAGLE, P.J.:
     Relator, Sonya R. Jackson, has filed a petition for a writ of
habeas corpus through which  she seeks release from prison.   Sua
sponte, we  dismiss the relator's petition  for a writ of  habeas
corpus.
     Initially, we find that the relator has failed to comply with
the requirements of R.C. 2725.04(D), which mandates that a copy of
the  cause of detention  be attached to  the petition for  habeas
corpus.  The petition for a writ of habeas corpus is thus fatally
defective.  Brown v. Rogers (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 339; Cornell v.
Schotten91994), 60 Ohio St.3d 466; Bloss v. Rogers (1992), 65 Ohio
St.3d 145. In addition, this court lacks jurisdiction to entertain
the relator's claim  since she is incarcerated at the  Marysville
Correctional Institution,  Marysville, Ohio,  and is  not in  the
custody of any authority located within Cuyahoga County.  See R.C.
2725.03; Bridges v. McMackin 91989), 44 Ohio St.3d 135; State  ex
rel. Dixon v. Gold (1991), 76 Ohio App.3d 518.
     Accordingly, we sua sponte dismiss the relator's petition for
a writ of habeas corpus. Clerk to serve notice of this judgment to
all partes as provided in Civ.R. 58(B).  Costs waived.
     Dismissed.
                         TIMOTHY E. McMONAGLE, PRESIDING JUDGE
MICHAEL J. CORRIGAN, J. and
PATRICIA A. BLACKMON, J., CONCUR.
 
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