STATE EX REL. STECKMAN v. JACKSON

Nos. 92-2254, 93-1336 and 92-1758.

70 Ohio St.3d 420 (1994)

THE STATE EX REL. STECKMAN, APPELLEE, v. JACKSON, CHIEF, APPELLANT. THE STATE EX REL. LARKINS, APPELLANT, v. KOVACIC, CHIEF, APPELLEE. THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. AMATO, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry K. Sherman; Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, John W. Zeiger and Matthew A. Kairis, for appellee in case No. 92-2254.

Ronald J. O'Brien, City Attorney, for appellant in case No. 92-2254.

Ronald Larkins, pro se in case No. 93-1336.

Sharon Sobol Jordan, Acting Director of Law, and Joseph J. Jerse, Assistant Director of Law, for appellee in case No. 93-1336.

Steven C. LaTourette, Lake County Prosecuting Attorney, Ariana E. Tarighati and Geoffrey W. Weaver, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellant in case No. 92-1758.

R. Paul LaPlante, Lake County Public Defender, and Charles Grieshammer, Assistant Public Defender, for appellee in case No. 92-1758.

Stephen T. Bolton and Joseph R. Young, Jr., urging affirmance for amicus curiae Vindicator Printing Company in case No. 92-1758.

Gloria Eyerly, Ohio Public Defender, Dale A. Baich and William S. Lazarow, Assistant Public Defenders; Harry R. Reinhart, Gold, Rotatori, Schwartz & Gibbons Co., L.P.A., and John S. Pyle; William N. Merrell, Clark County Public Defender, and Shawn A. Thomas, Assistant Public Defender, urging affirmance for amici curiae Ohio Public Defender, Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Clark County Public Defender in case No. 92-1758.

Joseph T. Deters, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, and William E. Breyer, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys' Association in case No. 92-1758.


DOUGLAS, J.

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The Issues

These three cases come to us each in a different procedural posture from the others. In case No. 92-2254, the designee of a defendant in a criminal case, whose case has not yet been tried, has filed an R.C. 149.43(C) mandamus action to obtain records that are alleged to be public. In case No. 93-1336, we have a criminal defendant who was convicted and whose conviction was affirmed on appeal seeking public...

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