Brown v. Hall

Ohio Supreme Court

Brown v. Hall

2009 Ohio 5592, 916 N.E.2d 807, 123 Ohio St. 3d 381

CourtOhio Supreme Court

DecidedOctober 29, 2009

Docket2009-0819

StatusPublished

Cited by13 cases

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Brown v. Hall, 2009 Ohio 5592, 916 N.E.2d 807, 123 Ohio St. 3d 381 (Ohio 2009).

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Per Curiam.

{¶ 1} We reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals for Stark County and remand the cause to that court to dismiss the habeas corpus petition of appellant, Felix Brown Jr. The court of appeals erred in addressing the merits of Brown’s habeas corpus claim because he incorrectly filed it in Stark County instead of the county in which he is incarcerated, Richland County. See R.C. 2725.03 (“If a person restrained of his liberty is an inmate of a state benevolent or correctional institution, the location of which is fixed by statute and at the time is in the custody of the officers of the institution, no court or judge other than the courts or judges of the county in which the institution is located has jurisdiction to issue or determine a writ of habeas corpus for his production or discharge”). Even though Brown’s petition reached the same district court of appeals it would have had it been filed in the correct county, the court of appeals still lacked jurisdiction to determine the merits of Brown’s petition. Goudlock v. Voorhies, 119 Ohio St.3d 398, 2008-Ohio-4787, 894 N.E.2d 692, ¶ 17, citing Sevayega v. Bobby, Mahoning App. No. 03 MA 48, 2003-Ohio-6395, 2003 WL 22839346, ¶ 4.

Judgment reversed and cause remanded.

Moyer, C.J., and Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, O’Donnell, Lanzinger, and Cupp, JJ., concur. Pfeifer, J., concurs in judgment only.

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Per Curiam.

{¶ 1} We reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals for Stark County and remand the cause to that court to dismiss the habeas corpus petition of appellant, Felix Brown Jr. The court of appeals erred in addressing the merits of Brown’s habeas corpus claim because he incorrectly filed it in Stark County instead of the county in which he is incarcerated, Richland County. See R.C. 2725.03 (“If a person restrained of his liberty is an inmate of a state benevolent or correctional institution, the location of which is fixed by statute and at the time is in the custody of the officers of the institution, no court or judge other than the courts or judges of the county in which the institution is located has jurisdiction to issue or determine a writ of habeas corpus for his production or discharge”). Even though Brown’s petition reached the same district court of appeals it would have had it been filed in the correct county, the court of appeals still lacked jurisdiction to determine the merits of Brown’s petition. Goudlock v. Voorhies, 119 Ohio St.3d 398, 2008-Ohio-4787, 894 N.E.2d 692, ¶ 17, citing Sevayega v. Bobby, Mahoning App. No. 03 MA 48, 2003-Ohio-6395, 2003 WL 22839346, ¶ 4.

Judgment reversed and cause remanded.

Moyer, C.J., and Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, O’Donnell, Lanzinger, and Cupp, JJ., concur. Pfeifer, J., concurs in judgment only.

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