State v. Tegner

TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

The petitioner, Robert Tegner, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus to direct the Honorable Glenn E. Thompson, circuit judge for the eighth judicial circuit, to revoke his order granting the state’s motion to remove attorney John Mays from representing the petitioner at trial and to reinstate Mays as attorney of record.

*515The petitioner was charged with murder. Mays was appointed to represent him. The only witness to the murder, John Mitchell, who was the victim’s brother, had previously been represented by Mays in connection with a charge for driving under the…