COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 79467
IN RE: JEFFERY WOODS          :    PETITION FOR WRIT
                              :    OF HABEAS CORPUS
               PETITIONER     :
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                              :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
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DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:            APRIL 26, 2001
JUDGMENT:                          DISMISSED.
APPEARANCES:
FOR RELATOR:                       FOR RESPONDENT:
JEFFERY WOODS, PRO SE              WILLIAM D. MASON, ESQ.
No. P079467R                       CUYAHOGA COUNTY PROSECUTOR
Cuyahoga County Jail               The Justice Center
P.O. Box 5600                      1200 Ontario Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44101              Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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ANN DYKE, P.J.:
     Relator, Jeffery Woods, has filed a complaint for a writ  of
habeas corpus through  which he seeks  release from the  Cuyahoga
County Jail. Sua sponte, we dismiss the relator's complaint 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 complaint for a writ of
habeas corpus.  The complaint for a writ of habeas corpus is thus
fatally defective.   Brown v. Rogers  (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d  339;
Cornell v.  Schotten (1994), 60 Ohio  St.3d 466; Bloss v.  Rogers
(1992), 65 Ohio St.3d 145.  In addition, the relator has failed to
comply  with  Loc.App.R.  45(B)(1)(a)  which  requires  that  the
complaint be  supported  with an  affidavit which  specifies  the
details of his claim.  State ex rel. Wilson v. Calabrese (Jan. 18,
1996), Cuyahoga app. No. 70077, unreported; State ex rel. Smith v.
McMonagle (July 17, 1996),  Cuyahoga App. No. 70899,  unreported.
Finally, the relator has failed to comply with R.C. 2969.25 which
requires an affidavit that describes each civil action or  appeal
filed by the relator within the previous five years in any state or
federal court.  State ex rel. Zanders v. Ohio Parole Board (1998),
82 Ohio St.3d 421; State ex rel. Alford v. Winters (1997), 80 Ohio
St.3d 285.
     Accordingly, we sua sponte dismiss the relator's complaint for
a writ of habeas corpus. The Clerk of the Eighth District Court of
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Appeals shall serve upon all parties notice of this judgment  and
the date of entry pursuant to Civ.R. 58(B).  Costs to relator.
     Complaint dismissed.
ANNE L. KILBANE, J.      AND
JAMES J. SWEENEY, J., CONCUR.
                                          PRESIDING JUDGE
                                              ANN DYKE
 
 
 
 
 
 
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