State Ex Rel. Sanders v. Kramer

THOMAS H. NEWTON, Presiding Judge.

The State of Missouri ex rel. Michael D. Sanders (Relator) filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus challenging the Honorable C. William Kramer’s (Respondent) order of probation for Mr. Jeffrey Arzola. The Relator claims that the Respondent had no jurisdiction to order probation in this case. We granted a Preliminary Writ of Mandamus and ordered the parties to brief the issue raised by the state in its Writ Petition, i.e., that the plea court lacked jurisdiction to place Mr. Arzola on probation because its judgment and sentence were final.

At the age of fourteen,…