State ex rel. McCulloch v. Lasky

CARL R. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Robert P. McCulloch, the Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis County (the State), filed this original action in prohibition, seeking to prevent the Honorable Herbert Lasky from permitting defendant, William Weaver, to attend his Rule 29.15 evidentiary hearing and from ordering that some of the State’s trial files be sealed for future appellate review of Weaver’s case. This court issued a prelimi*698nary writ of prohibition which we now quash as improvidently issued.

On July 20, 1988, a jury found Weaver guilty of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to death…