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Date: 06-04-2020

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The State ex rel. Jason Arnold v. Bureau of Sentence Computation

Case Number: 19AP-183

Judge: Jennifer Brunner

Court: IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO TENTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

Plaintiff's Attorney: Dave Yost, Attorney General, and George Horvath

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Description: Relator, Jason Arnold, pro se, an inmate of the Lebanon Correctional
Institution, filed this original action for a writ of mandamus seeking an order that
respondent, Ohio Bureau of Sentence Computation ("BOSC"), "credit him with jail time in
the amount of 173 days towards his Judicial Sanction pursuant to R.C. 2929.141 as ordered
by the Muskingum County Common Pleas Court in Criminal Case No. CR2017-0420."
(Mar. 29, 2019 Compl. at 1.) Having referred Arnold's complaint to a magistrate of this
court under Civ.R. 53, we adopt the magistrate's decision and deny the requested writ.
{¶ 2} Arnold filed his complaint in mandamus on March 29, 2019. He attached
thereto a copy of the June 14, 2018 nunc pro tunc entry from the Court of Common Pleas
of Muskingum County, Ohio indicating that Arnold had 170 days of jail-time credit, "along
with future custody days while the Defendant awaits transportation to the appropriate State
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Institution." Id. at 9. Arnold also attached a copy of the letter he had sent notifying BOSC
that 173 days of credit had not been properly applied.
{¶ 3} This court referred Arnold's complaint to a magistrate according to Civ.R.
53(C) and Loc.R. 13(M) of the Tenth District Court of Appeals. Both Arnold and BOSC filed
briefs. On January 28, 2020, our magistrate issued a decision, including findings of facts
and conclusions of law, which is appended to this decision. Based on the evidence
presented, the magistrate finds that BOSC has properly calculated the number of days of
jail-time credit as found by the Muskingum County Court of Common Pleas. The
magistrate further finds that Arnold also has been credited with 90 days of earned credit
for his participation in various institutional programming. Based on this evidence, the
magistrate concludes that Arnold has not demonstrated that BOSC has abused its
discretion in failing to properly calculate Arnold's number of days of jail-time credit. The
magistrate recommends this court deny Arnold's request for writ of mandamus.
{¶ 4} No objections have been filed to the magistrate's decision.

Outcome: Finding no error of law or other defect on the face of the magistrate's decision,
we adopt the decision as our own, including the findings of fact and conclusions of law
contained therein. In accordance with the magistrate's decision, we deny the requested
writ.

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