Keys v. Hey

Caplan, Chief Justice:

The petitioner, Sharon Keys, invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court, seeks a writ to prohibit the Circuit Court of Kanawha County from enforcing an order transferring her cases, pursuant to her motion for a change of venue, to a particular county until the Court has considered the demographic characteristics of other counties with regard to race. She asks this Court to order the Circuit Court of Kanawha County to transfer the cases pending against her to a county “with a similar or greater percentage of black persons in its population [than] Kanawha County” and…