State ex rel. Boylen v. Harmon

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment granting a writ of mandamus to compel the Clerk of the Canton Municipal Court to file an inmate’s affidavits that were presented pursuant to R.C. 2935.09 and to conduct subsequent proceedings on the affidavits in accordance with R.C. 2935.10.

{¶ 2} In August 1999, appellant, prison inmate Adam Douglas Boylen, was convicted of 17 counts of aggravated robbery and one count of grand theft of a *371motor vehicle and sentenced to an aggregate prison term of 50 years and five months.

{¶ 3} In March 2005, Boylen drafted and attempted to file seven affidavits with…