State ex rel. Dunn v. Dalton

JOSEPH J. SIMEONE, Senior Judge.

This case is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the Honorable David A. Dalton, Presiding Judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit to reassign the Honorable Lester W. Duggan, Jr., the judge who originally took pleas of guilty from relator, as the judge to preside over relator’s probation revocation proceedings. We have jurisdiction. Mo. Const. Art. V., § 4. We issued our preliminary order on March 16, 1990. We now make our preliminary order permanent.

On March 2,1987, relator, Earnest Dunn, pleaded guilty before the Honorable Lester W. Duggan, Jr. to two…