Blossom v. Blossom

PIERCE, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This matter is an interlocutory appeal by Kelly Blossom (“Kelly”) regarding the issuance of a protective order by the Rankin County Chancery Court denying her attempt to take the deposition of two witnesses in her pending divorce case. One of the witnesses was a minor victim in a criminal case (“C.B.”) in which Kelly eventually pleaded guilty to having committed sexual battery. The other potential deponent, a minor named R.W., was identified by Kelly as having knowledge about “the rape” in the criminal case. At the time the trial court issued the protective…