State v. Valerio

OPINION

FRY, Judge.

{1} Defendant was charged by criminal complaint in magistrate court with two misdemeanor counts of criminal sexual contact. After the magistrate court declined to dismiss the charges on the basis of alleged deficiencies in the criminal complaint, Defendant filed an emergency petition for a writ of prohibition in district court, which was subsequently granted. We conclude that the writ of prohibition was not appropriate because the magistrate court had subject matter and personal jurisdiction in this case, and Defendant failed to establish that he did not have an adequate…