STATE, EX REL. MARTINELLI, v. CORRIGAN

No. 58712.

71 Ohio App.3d 243 (1991)

The STATE, ex rel. MARTINELLI, v. CORRIGAN, Judge, et al.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County.

Decided March 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Pontius Martinelli, pro se.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Prosecuting Attorney, and Jerome E. Dowling, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for respondents Judge Daniel O. Corrigan et al.

Joseph J. Jerse, Assistant Law Director, for respondents George Voinovich et al.


NAHRA, Presiding Judge:

In 1982, relator, Joseph Pontius Martinelli, was convicted of the murder of Gary Andrew Buchwald and sentenced to fifteen years to life. After exhausting his direct appeals, Martinelli commenced this mandamus action on November 2, 1989, against Judge Daniel O. Corrigan, who was the presiding judge at the murder trial, Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald T. McFaul and Coroner Elizabeth Balraj.1 The purpose of this action...

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