STATE EX REL. JENKINS v. CLEVELAND

No. 59513.

82 Ohio App.3d 770 (1992)

The STATE ex rel. JENKINS v. CITY OF CLEVELAND.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County.

Decided August 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Lazarow and Dale A. Baich, for relator.

Danny R. Williams, Law Director, Kathleen A. Martin, Chief Assistant Law Director, and Joseph J. Jerse, Assistant Law Director, for respondent.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and Carol Shockley, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for intervenor.


JOHN F. CORRIGAN, Presiding Judge.

Relator Leonard Jenkins was convicted of the aggravated murder of Police Officer Anthony Johnson and sentenced to death.1 After exhausting his direct appeals, Jenkins commenced this mandamus action on March 23, 1990, against the city of Cleveland and several of its officers (i.e., the Director of Public Safety, the Chief of Police and the Mayor;...

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