People v. DIST. CT. IN & FOR THIRD JUD. DIST.

The People petitioned this court for relief in the nature of prohibition to prevent an acting district judge in the Third Judicial District from dismissing the prosecutor from a pending case. C.A.R. 21. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

The prosecutor in question represented the People before a grand jury in 1976. In the course of investigations into activities of Ernest U. Sandoval, District Attorney for the City of Trinidad, the prosecutor asked certain questions of Sandoval. The responses to these questions formed the basis for a subsequent indictment of…