State Ex Rel. Roberts v. Winkler

Cunningham, Judge.

{¶ 1} In this original action, relator Lynn Roberts seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent, the Honorable Ralph E. Winkler, a judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, from ordering Roberts into custody and resentencing him to serve the remaining portion of his five-year prison term. While his direct appeal was pending in this court, Roberts alleges, he had been selected for placement in an Intensive Program Prison (“IPP”) — a 90-day bootcamp-like alternative to prison. He claims to have completed the program and to have been released from prison,…