People Ex Rel. Peters v. District Court Ex Rel. County of Arapahoe

The People brought this original proceeding under C.A.R. 21 seeking relief in the nature of mandamus to correct an order issued by the Arapahoe County District Court (“the district court”) holding that the attorneys for a defendant in a first-degree murder case should not be disqualified on the basis of a conflict of interest. The district court held that no conflict of interest exists where the defendant’s attorneys are members of a firm that includes an attorney who currently represents a prosecution witness and formerly represented in a separate matter a person identified by the defense as…