H.B. v. Lake County District Court

In this original proceeding pursuant to C.A.R. 21, the petitioners seek relief in the nature of prohibition to require the district court to dismiss a dependency and neglect proceeding and termination of parental rights proceeding for lack of jurisdiction or authority to prosecute. 1 In the trial court the petitioner had filed a motion to dismiss or in the alternative to disqualify the district attorney’s office from acting as a special county attorney in a dependency and neglect and termination of parental rights proceeding. The trial court denied the motion to dismiss and held that the…