State ex rel. Reed v. Douglass

MILLER, Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition, Jeffrey B. Reed, Prosecuting Attorney for Wood County,1 asks us to prohibit the Honorable Daniel B. Douglass, Judge of the Circuit Court of Wood County, from providing an early termination to the probation of Dean Ray Buckley without first holding a hearing. This case presents a question of first impression as to whether a prosecuting attorney is entitled to notice and an opportunity to be heard when a probationer seeks to have the terms of his probation advantageously modified.

Mr. Buckley was convicted in 1986 of two counts of first…