State Ex Rel. Lawson v. Wilkes

PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION

DAVIS, Chief Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition, the petitioners, Deborah A. Lawson, an attorney at law, and the Public Defender Corporation for the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, her employer, ask this court to prohibit the Circuit Court of Jefferson County from compelling the Public Defender Corporation, as guardian ad litem for an incarcerated convict, to pursue a civil appeal that it believes to be without merit. We find that the circuit court erred in appointing a guardian ad litem to assist an incarcerated convict in connection with a…