State Ex Rel. Joyce v. Baker

CLIFFORD H. AHRENS, Presiding Judge.

Jennifer M. Joyce, Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, (“relator”) filed a petition for writ of mandamus, seeking to compel the Honorable Evelyn Baker, Judge of the Twenty-Second Circuit Court of Missouri (“respondent”), to grant relator’s motion for change of judge. Peremptory writ issued.

George Carnahan (“defendant”) was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit. Defendant filed a request for disposition of…