State v. Seitz

WELLS, Judge.

The State seeks certiorari review of an order authorizing defendant, Robert Seitz, to take the telephonic deposition of Mark Smith, a former Assistant State Attorney, who at one time was assigned to Seitz’s ongoing criminal prosecution. We grant certiorari and quash the order.

In September 2001, Seitz was charged in a seven-count information with battering and stalking Jilda Unruh, a local television journalist, and with making threatening and harassing telephone calls to her. Seitz was also charged with violating an earlier injunction against repeat violence. Almost six years…