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

A petition for a writ of prohibition was filed pursuant to C.A.R. 21 after the trial judge declared a mistrial, disqualified the deputy district attorney prosecuting the multi-count felony charges, and directed an assistant to proceed with the prosecution and retrial of the case. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

The defendant, Calvin E. Preston, was charged in a multi-count information with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and sexual assault, three counts of…