Opinion
No. 90-1496
Submitted September 10, 1991 —
Decided December 4, 1991.
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lorain County, No. 90CA004826.
Appellant, Donald L. Richard, Sr., filed a rambling petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the court of appeals, the gist of which was that he was denied effective assistance of counsel on direct appeal of his convictions for murder and having a weapon under disability, both with gun specifications. The court of appeals dismissed the petition, holding that appellant had an adequate remedy at law.
The cause is before this court upon an appeal as of right.
Donald L. Richard, Sr., pro se. Lee I. Fisher, Attorney General, and John J. Gideon, for appellee.
In In re Petition of Brown (1990), 49 Ohio St.3d 222, 551 N.E.2d 954, we held that appeal to this court on the question of denial of effective assistance of appellate counsel is an adequate remedy at law, which precludes issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. Therefore, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.
Judgment affirmed.
MOYER, C.J., SWEENEY, HOLMES, DOUGLAS, WRIGHT, H. BROWN and RESNICK, JJ., concur.