Claytor v. Tricarichi, 92745 (3-2-2009)

JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION

{¶ 1} On February 3, 2009, the petitioner, Justin Claytor, commenced this mandamus action against the respondent, Carla Tricarichi, a private attorney, to compel her to give him the trial transcripts in State ofOhio v. Justin Claytor, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Case No. CR-206272. Claytor asserts that Tricarichi has possession of the transcript and that, pursuant to the legal principle that an indigent appellant is entitled to a free transcript, Tricarichi has the duty to give him the transcript. For the following reasons, this court denies the application for…