Dollar v. State

SHARP, W., J.

John E. Dollar and Linda K. Dollar petition this court for a writ of mandamus. Under the unusual procedural circumstances of this case, we elect to treat the petition as one for habeas corpus and we deny relief.

On February 1, 2005, the Dollars were charged with five counts of aggravated child abuse, a first degree felony.1 The court set a $100,000 bond. Three days later, on February 4, 2005, they were arrested in Utah. The state moved to revoke the provision for the Dollars’ bond on February 1, 2005, alleging that the Dollars had fled to avoid prosecution. In the absence of the…