Orange County v. Love

W. SHARP, Judge.

Orange County appeals from an order which granted Courtney Love’s petition for writ of mandamus directed to the county court by the circuit court. We conclude that this cause should have been dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, since Orange County had no standing to file an appeal in the case. However, we opt to write an opinion in this cause, to address a murky area of the law, in the hopes of clarifying the procedure to be followed in later cases.

This cause commenced when Love was charged with two counts of misdemeanor battery, stemming from an incident on June 23, 1995. The…