State ex rel. Cummings v. Corrigan

2024 Ohio 668

• Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
• Decided: February 22, 2024
• Docket: 113563
• Status: Published

Opinion

[Cite as State ex rel. Cummings v. Corrigan, 2024-Ohio-668.]

COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO

EIGHTH APPELLATE DISTRICT COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA

STATE EX REL., KENSHAWN CUMMINGS, :

Relator, : No. 113563 v. :

JUDGE PETER J. CORRIGAN, :

Respondent. :

JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION

JUDGMENT: COMPLAINT DISMISSED DATED: February 16, 2024

Writ of Procedendo Order No. 572105

Appearances:

Kenshawn Cummings, pro se.

Michael C. O’Malley, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and James E. Moss, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for respondent.

SEAN C. GALLAGHER, J.:

On January 17, 2024, the relator, Kenshawn Cummings, commenced

this procedendo action against the respondent, Judge Peter J. Corrigan, to compel

the judge to rule on his postconviction-relief petition, which he filed on November 22, 2022, in the underlying cases, State v. Cummings, Cuyahoga C.P.

Nos. CR-16-607962 and CR-16-608614. A review of the docket in those underlying

cases shows that on February 13, 2024, the respondent judge issued a nine-page

journal entry, constituting findings of fact and conclusions of law, that denied

Cummings’s postconviction relief petitions in each case. This journal entry

establishes that the respondent judge has proceeded to judgment on the subject

motion and that this procedendo action is moot.

Accordingly, this court sua sponte dismisses Cummings’s procedendo

action as moot. Respondent to pay costs; costs waived. This court directs the clerk

of courts to serve all parties notice of the judgment and its date of entry upon the

journal as required by Civ.R. 58(B).

Complaint dismissed.

______________________ SEAN C. GALLAGHER, JUDGE

MARY EILEEN KILBANE, P.J., and MARY J. BOYLE, J., CONCUR