T.D. v. Smith

SPECIAL TERM OPINION

ANDERSON, Judge. *

This petition for a writ of prohibition seeks to restrain the district court from keeping a juvenile witness in custody pending the trial in which the juvenile has been subpoenaed to testify. We deny the petition.

FACTS

The prosecution subpoenaed petitioner T.D. to appear and to testify in a first-degree murder trial. T.D. was also subpoenaed to testify in another trial involving the same offense. After T.D. fahed to appear in the first trial, the district court found him in contempt and sentenced him to 30 days in the Juvenile Detention Center. The court…