COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                           NO.  79703
STATE OF OHIO, EX REL.        :        ORIGINAL ACTION
HENRY HALL                    :
                              :
          Relator             :
                              :         JOURNAL ENTRY
          v.                  :              AND
                              :            OPINION
GERALD E. FUERST, CLERK OF    :
COURTS                        :
                              :
          Respondent          :
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:            OCTOBER 29, 2001
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING:           WRIT OF MANDAMUS
JUDGMENT:                          Writ denied.
APPEARANCES:
For Relator:                       For Respondent:
HENRY HALL, pro se                 WILLIAM D. MASON, ESQ.
No. 303-386                        Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
Mansfield Correctional Inst.
P.O. Box 788                       SHERRY F. McCREARY, ESQ.
Mansfield, Ohio  44901             Assistant County Prosecutor
                                   The Justice Center
                                   1200 Ontario Street
                                   Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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KARPINSKI, ADM.J.:
     Relator is the  defendant in State v. Hall, Cuyahoga  County
Court of Common Pleas Case No. CR-319360.  By entry received  for
filing on March 29, 1995,  relator was sentenced in Case No.  CR-
319360 for a term of 8 to 15 years.   Also in that journal entry,
the trial court indicated  mandatory time 8 years/agreed sentence.
Complaint, Exh. C.  Relator contends that the trial court imposed
a sentence of 8 to 15 years, Complaint, Exh. A (transcript of plea
and sentence), and that respondent clerk  added within the journal
entry that the  defendant-relator was to serve a mandatory  eight
years/agreed sentence.   Complaint, par. 4.
     In this action in mandamus, relator requests that this court
compel respondent clerk to correct the journal entry  to have the
journal entry *** read as the sentence that was imposed upon  the
relator.   Complaint, par. 5.  Yet,  the clerk does  not have the
power to issue orders.   State ex rel. Hussing v. Court of Common
Pleas (Oct. 1, 1998), Cuyahoga App. No. 74891, unreported, at  5.
After the court issues a judgment, the clerk enters the judgment on
the journal.  Crim.R. 32(C).  Relator has not set forth any clear
legal duty on the part of respondent clerk to change the  journal
entry.
     Accordingly, respondent's motion for summary judgment or, in
the alternative,  motion to dismiss is  granted.  Relator to  pay
costs.  The clerk is directed to serve upon the parties notice of
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this judgment  and its date  of entry upon  the journal.   Civ.R.
58(B).
     Writ denied.
PATRICIA ANN BLACKMON, J., and
ANNE L. KILBANE, J., CONCUR.
                                        DIANE KARPINSKI
                                      ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE
 
.