State v. Fleming

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

This is a petition for writ of mandamus.

Federal prisoner John Wayne Fleming was being held in the Clay County Jail on a criminal indictment awaiting trial. He is represented by appointed counsel in that criminal case.

Clay County Circuit Judge John E. Rochester ordered Fleming transferred to the St. Clair Correctional Facility in order to allow the petitioner access to a law library so that he could prepare for his federal civil lawsuit against the Sheriff of Clay County and prepare for his criminal trial in which he had been formally appointed as his own co-counsel. The…