Sullivan v. Dalton

HOLSTEIN, Judge.

Petitioners Christene Sullivan and Joseph Downey are respectively an assistant public defender and the Director of the Missouri Public Defender Commission. They seek to set aside an order by respondent, Honorable Donald E. Dalton, Judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit, appointing a public defender to represent an individual charged with violation of an ordinance of the City of Bowling Green. The petition is denied.

Sharon Tophinke is charged with violating an ordinance of the City of Bowling Green which carries a maximum penalty of ninety days incarceration.1 She appeared pro se…