State ex rel. Washington v. Crush

{¶ 1} In November 1991, appellant, William Washington Jr., filed a petition in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. He requested a writ of habeas corpus to compel his immediate release from the county jail. In August 2004, Washington moved for summary judgment on his petition.

{¶ 2} In October 2004, Washington filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, Judge Thomas A. Crush of the common pleas court, to rule upon his pending habeas corpus petition. Judge Crush moved to dismiss the mandamus petition. On November 4, 2004, the…