Nitcher v. Brown

NUGENT, Chief Judge.

Relators Rory S. Nitcher and Dwayne Walker seek writs of mandamus compelling respondent Honorable Thomas J. Brown, III, an associate circuit judge of Cole County, to process their notices of appeal. Respondent contends that he properly ordered his clerk not to file the notices because no final judgments existed from which the relators could appeal. We issued our preliminary writs and now make those writs absolute.

Mr. Nitcher, a prisoner at the Missouri State Penitentiary, filed a pro se complaint alleging negligence on the part of particular prison officials. Judge Brown…