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Ohio, ex rel. Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. William R. Niemi, Sheriff, Ashtabula County, Ohio

IFP petition · Supreme Court of Ohio, No. 2025-1252 · judgment December 9, 2025


Pending

Questions presented

  1. Whether the Petitioner is detained in violation of the Constitution, where unconditional release upon an unconditional writ of habeas corpus has been ordered yet the state has denied such release.

  2. Whether the Petitioner's continued detention violates due process where a vacated judgment is void ab initio, and the court fails to give legal effect to its own vacat.ui\

  3. Whether the Petitioner is detained in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Double Jeopardy and Process Clauses when denied the presumption of innocence of the underlying predicate "aggravated robbery," dismissed, June 9, 1998.

  4. Whether detention violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments where the Constitution requires indictment by a grand jury, and the purported indictment fails to allege each and every element Necessary to constitute the purported offense where state law holds this fails to confer jurisdiction but consistently refuses to apply such holding.

  5. Whether arrest, warrant, and detention without probable cause violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, rendering detention unlawful.

  6. Whether a petitioner is unlawfully detained and entitled to dismissal of the indictment and immediate release where His Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to a Speedy Trial and Due Process has been violated. 7. Whether complete denial of bail violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, rendering detention unconstitutional.

  7. Whether denial of a preliminary hearing violates Due Process and Equal Protection of the Laws, resulting in unlawful detention.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Malik Allah-U-Akbar

For respondent
Mathura Jaya Sridharan
Ohio Attorney General's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Aug 06 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Aug 03 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent William R. Niemi to respond filed.
  3. Mar 09 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 6, 2026)