State ex rel. Robinson v. Office of Attorney General

PAUL M. SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

Jeremiah Nixon, Attorney General,1 appeals the circuit court’s declaratory judgment that the Office of Administration cannot provide to the Attorney General or to any other prosecuting attorney copies of billing records concerning expert witnesses hired by the Public Defender or his or her assistants. Nixon challenges the standing of J. Marty Robinson, director of the Public Defender System, to bring this lawsuit. He also argues that, because he had withdrawn his request for the records, the case was moot when the circuit court issued its judgment; that…