Turner v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.
Annotate this CaseIn 1970, Appellant pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to an indeterminate period. Appellant was placed in the custody of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC), which treated his sentence as a one-to-five-year term authorized by former Ohio Rev. Code 2901.241. The Adult Parole Authority (APA) and the Bureau of Sentence Computation (BOSC) made decisions regarding Appellant’s parole eligibility and release based on the one-to-five-year term. Appellant filed this action in mandamus requesting that Appellees - the ODRC, APA, and BOSC - remove the invalid sentence from their records and no longer make decisions based on it because the sentencing entry did not explicitly set forth the maximum and minimum length of his sentence and that the ODRC, not a court, imposed a sentence of one to five years. The court of appeals dismissed the petition. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Appellant had adequate remedies in the ordinary course of the law to challenge the sentence and ODRC’s interpretation of the sentence.
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