STATE EX REL. KOSTER v. Koffman

VICTOR C. HOWARD, Judge.

The Attorney General seeks a writ of certiorari asking this court to quash the Cooper County Circuit Court’s grant of a habeas corpus writ ordering prisoner, Brian Prater, be remanded to the county sheriff for further proceedings. The record of the circuit court granting the writ of habeas corpus is quashed.

Mr. Prater was charged by information with the class D felony driving while intox icated (DWI), section 577.010, RSMo 2000. The information alleged that Mr. Prater was a persistent offender under section 577.023.1(4), RSMo Cum.Supp.2005, in that he had pleaded…