State v. Mandell

FARMER, Judge.

The state appeals from an order dismissing an information. Mandell was charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. An assistant State Attorney for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit certified in the information that testimony had been received under oath from witnesses and that the prosecution was in good faith. The jurat was signed by an employee of the state attorney’s office, who also held an appointment by the Clerk of Court as a deputy clerk.

Mandell moved to dismiss the information, arguing as follows:

The information in this cause failed to contain a proper…