State ex rel. Sharif v. McDonnell

Abdul K. Sharif, appellee, was convicted of murder on June 15, 1989, in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. The Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County affirmed this judgment on March 18, 1991, State v. Sharif, Cuyahoga App. No. 30260, unreported, and we overruled a motion for leave to appeal this decision on August 7, 1991, 61 Ohio St.3d 1431, 575 N.E.2d 219.

Sharif filed a petition for postconviction relief on August 11, 1999, and Judge Nancy R. McDonnell, appellant, to whom the case was assigned, dismissed the petition summarily on August 18, 1999, apparently because Sharif had not timely…