State Ex Rel. Shaw v. Provaznik

KELLY, Presiding Judge.

Relator, William J. Shaw, the Public Defender for the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, seeks our writ of prohibition, enjoining the Honorable Richard F. Provaznik from appointing the St. Louis County Public Defender as counsel for David M. Crosby in a civil contempt proceeding arising out of Crosby’s failure to make child support payments. This court issued a preliminary writ of prohibition on December 6, 1985. We now make the preliminary writ permanent and absolute.

Relator contends in his petition for Writ of Prohibition, and in his brief in support thereof that…