Arkansas Public Defender Commission v. Burnett

RAY Thornton, Justice.

The petitioner, The Arkansas Public Defender Commission (the Commission), asks this court to issue a writ of prohibition against respondent, Craig-head County Circuit Judge David Burnett, and in its petition alleges that the judge was wholly without jurisdiction to order the Commission to pay legal fees for attorneys the trial court appointed to represent two minors in a civil action. We granted the Commission’s request for expedited consideration of the matter and had the parties brief the issues for our review. We treat the petition as one of certiorari and grant the…