THE STATE EX REL. WASHINGTON, APPELLANT, v. OHIO ADULT PAROLE AUTHORITY, APPELLEE.
No. 99-1005
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO
December 1, 1999
87 Ohio St.3d 258 | 1999-Ohio-53
Submitted October 12, 1999. APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 98AP-73.
{¶ 1} In 1998, appellant, Robert H. Washington, Jr., an inmate at London Correctional Institution, filed a complaint in the court of appeals for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, Ohio Adult Parole Authority (“APA”), to release him on parole, or alternatively, order a new parole revocation hearing. Washington claimed that the APA used incompetent evidence to revoke his parole. Washington did not file with his complaint an affidavit describing each civil action or appeal of a civil action he had filed in the previous five years in any state or federal court, and his affidavit of indigency did not contain a statement setting forth the balance in his inmate account for each of the preceding six months, as certified by the institutional cashier. See
{¶ 2} In 1999, the court of appeals dismissed Washington’s complaint.
Robert H. Washington, Jr., pro se.
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Jihad M. Smaili, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
{¶ 3} Washington asserts that the court of appeals erred in dismissing his mandamus action. Washington’s claims are meritless.
{¶ 4} As the court of appeals properly concluded, Washington, who does not claim that
{¶ 6} Based on the foregoing, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.
Judgment affirmed.
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.