Beeman v. Petrie

JOHNSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a district judge’s dismissal of an application for writ of review in a child custody case in which a magistrate judge issued a contempt order. In the course of the appeal, Edwin Guy Schiller requested this Court to issue a writ of habeas corpus requiring Jerri Lynne Beeman to return the child to him.

We conclude that the district judge should have granted the application for review to address the question of the jurisdiction of the magistrate judge to issue the contempt order. We deny the request for a writ of habeas corpus.

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THE BACKGROUND AND PRIOR…