State Ex Rel. Nothum v. Kintz

NANNETTE A. BAKER, Presiding Judge.

Introduction

David Nothum and Glenette Nothum (“Relators”) seek this court’s writ of prohibition to prevent the Honorable John Kintz, of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County (“Respondent”) from compelling them to testify at a judgment debtor’s examination. Relators have asserted their privilege against self-incrimination as secured by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and by Article I, Section 19 of the Missouri Constitution. We issued our preliminary writ, which we now make absolute.

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