State Ex. Rel. Burrington v. McFaul

James J. Sweeney, Judge.

On March 2, 2001, the relator, Courtland Burrington, commenced this mandamus action against the respondents, Sheriff Gerald T. McFaul, Warden Michael Pavicic, Director Robert Pace, and Associate Warden Alford Wilcox, to compel them to grant him meaningful access to the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center (“the jail”) law library so that he might do legal research and to grant him access to a notary public. He averred that while he was in the jail the respondents prohibited meaningful access to the law library and also to a notary public. At the end of his memorandum in…