Sheriff v. Shade

*827OPINION

This is an appeal from an order of the district court granting respondent’s pretrial petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

On September 10, 1992, a justice of the peace conducted the preliminary hearing for this matter. A marshalling of the evidence produced at the preliminary hearing suggests that on August 21, 1992, respondent Marshall Shade accompanied his stepson, Peter Kenneson, in Kenneson’s car as Kenneson conducted an illegal narcotics transaction with Ray Richardson, a confidential informant. Specifically, the evidence suggests that Shade was present as Kenneson negotiated for…