State Ex Rel. Sims v. Perry

DAVIS, Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition, the State seeks to prohibit the Circuit Court of Logan County from enforcing its order suppressing incriminating statements made by the defendant, Tommy Dean Hunt [hereinafter “Hunt”], to a confidential police informant regarding activities that had been the subject of earlier criminal charges against Hunt, which charges had been dismissed approximately two years prior to his incriminating statements. Following Hunt’s incrimi nating statements, he was again charged with criminal offenses identical to those that had previously been…