STATE EX REL. MASON v. GRIFFIN

No. 00-533.

90 Ohio St.3d 299 (2000)

THE STATE EX REL. MASON, APPELLANT, v. GRIFFIN, JUDGE, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided November 22, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Mason, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, L. Christopher Frey and Renee L. Snow, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellant.

David L. Doughten, for appellee.


MOYER, C.J.

Mason asserts in his sole proposition of law that a writ of mandamus must issue if a trial court refuses either to hold a hearing to determine whether the offender is a sexual predator or determine that the offender is not a sexual predator without a hearing. Judge Griffin counters that R.C. 2950.09(C)(2) authorizes him to decline to act on the ODRC recommendation and alternatively that R.C. 2950.09(C)(2) imposes no duty on him because...

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