245 N.E.2d 384 | Ohio Ct. App. | 1968
Petitioner is a misdemeanant who pleaded guilty or no contest to four traffic violations, receiving fines and jail terms later reduced to $1,200 and fourteen months through a postconviction remedy brought under Section
With his habeas petition, petitioner has filed an affidavit of indigency.
Petitioner contends that his Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection and due process of law are abridged by his imprisonment. Since we find the recently decided case ofSawyer v. District of Columbia (D.C.C.A., February 19, 1968),
Since the petitioner here received and has served the maximum jail sentences for his misdemeanors, Sawyer is controlling.
The petitioner is released from custody.
Petitioner released from custody.
SILBERT and CANARY, JJ., concur. *209