Harris v. Bagley

{¶ 1} In September 2000, appellant, Matthew Harris, was convicted of one count of rape and was sentenced to nine years in prison. In April 2002, Harris filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for Richland County for a writ of habeas corpus to compel his immediate release from prison. Harris claimed that his conviction and sentence were void because no proper criminal complaint had ever been filed against him before he was indicted. The court of appeals dismissed the petition because a writ of habeas corpus “is not available to challenge the validity or sufficiency of an indictment.”

{¶ 2} In…