W.I. v. State

Petitioner, W.I., a juvenile, seeks prohibition following the denial of his motion to disqualify the judge presiding in his prosecution. The motion to disqualify contained allegations that the presiding judge had been the prosecuting attorney assigned to a 1995 prosecution of petitioner as a juvenile (unrelated to this prosecution) and that the judge made an oral disclosure in open court, prior to the date charges were filed against petitioner in this case, advising counsel that she was close friends with a case worker assigned to petitioner. The trial judge denied the motion as legally…