Brown v. Rogers

In State ex rel. Pirman v. Money (1994), 69 Ohio St.3d 591, 635 N.E.2d 26, we stated that habeas corpus is the proper action to challenge the failure to set bail following conviction, overruling Dapice v. Stickrath (1988), 40 Ohio St.3d 298, 533 N.E.2d 339, which had in turn overruled Liberatore v. McKeen (1980), 63 Ohio St.2d 175, 17 O.O.3d 107, 407 N.E.2d 23. In Liberatore, we allowed the writ of habeas corpus and continued an appeal bond. The evidence in that case showed that the court of appeals had denied the request without stating any reasons. We held that “we are constrained to look…