State Ex Rel. Turner v. Frankel

This is an original mandamus proceeding. Relator, Deangelo Leroy Timer, seeks a writ directing defendant judge to deny the state’s motion for declaration of a mistrial on two counts of aggravated murder in a criminal prosecution of Relator. Relator further asks this court to direct defendant judge to dismiss, with prejudice, those two counts of aggravated murder.

In September of 1993, Relator was indicted jointly with Ronaid Ray Simmons, Jr., on six counts of aggravated murder and three counts of other felonies. The six aggravated murder counts, all related to the death of a single victim,…