Valdez v. District Court in & for the City & County of Denver

VOLLACK, Justice.

The petitioner, Silas Valdez, seeks a writ of prohibition alleging the respondent court exceeded its jurisdiction by ruling on the district attorney’s motion to review the appointment of the public defender to represent petitioner on appeal of his criminal convictions. Petitioner seeks to prohibit enforcement of the court’s order revoking the appointment of the public defender for purposes of appeal. We issued a rule to show cause why the relief sought should not be granted, and we now make the rule absolute.

On March 22, 1985, petitioner was convicted of the charges of…