Glover v. EIGHTH JUD. DIST. COURT OF STATE

*696OPINION

By the Court,

Pickering, J.:

This petition for a writ of prohibition asks us to decide whether the district court violated petitioner Shawn Glover’s double jeopardy rights when it granted a mistrial and ordered him to stand trial a second time on murder and lesser related charges. The district court determined that defense counsel had irretrievably biased the jury by putting before them facts not in evidence, making mistrial a “manifest necessity.’ ’

The controversy arose out of a voluntary statement Glover gave the police. The State told the defense that it did not intend to use Glover’s…