
    The State ex rel. Recker, Appellant, v. Leonard, Warden, Appellee.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Recker v. Leonard (2000), 88 Ohio St.3d 223.]
    (No. 99-1571
    Submitted February 9, 2000
    Decided March 15, 2000.)
    
      Ronald Recker, pro se.
    
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Stuart W. Harris and Laurence R. Snyder, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.
   Per Curiam,

For the following reasons, the court of appeals properly dismissed Recker’s habeas corpus petition.

Am.Sub.S.B. No. 2, 146 Ohio Laws, Part IV, 7136, does not apply to persons, like Recker, who were convicted and sentenced before July 1, 1996. State ex rel. Smith v. Sage (1998), 83 Ohio St.3d 209, 209-210, 699 N.E.2d 87, 88.

Moreover, Recker has no constitutional or inherent right to be conditionally released before the expiration of his sentence. State ex rel. Hogan v. Ghee (1999), 85 Ohio St.3d 150, 151, 707 N.E.2d 494, 495.

Finally, the court of appeals did not err in assessing costs against Recker. Contrary to Recker’s contentions on appeal, he should not have prevailed in his habeas corpus action.

Based on the foregoing, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

Judgment affirmed.

Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.  