Scott v. McLaughlin

On March 18, 1987, Jim Lee Scott filed this pro se suit for mandamus and prohibition against the DeKalb solicitor and the state court trial judge to whom his case involving a charge of simple battery was assigned. He sought the solicitor’s compliance with his requests for discovery and to prohibit use of some of the state’s evidence, as well as a continuance of the criminal proceedings against him by the trial court until the solicitor complied with his discovery requests. On the appointed trial date, he entered a plea of nolo contendere and was placed on unsupervised probation. His…