State ex rel. Keenan v. Calabrese

Appellant asserts in his first proposition of law that an order of a trial court in a criminal case disqualifying counsel who had been hired by a criminal defendant is subject to mandamus and/or prohibition since any appeal after judgment and sentence is not an adequate legal remedy. The court of appeals determined that appellant possessed an adequate remedy at law through appeal which precluded both prohibition and mandamus relief. In so holding, the court of appeals opined that the granting of the motion to disqualify counsel constituted a final appealable order. Nevertheless, a different…