State ex rel. Imboden v. Romines

SATZ, Judge.

Relator, Jeffrey Imboden, (Imboden) seeks our writ to prohibit the respondent judge from “enforcing sentences for contempt of court.” The specific relief Imbo-den actually seeks is for us to order respondent to vacate the sentences for contempt. This relief is more appropriately obtained by mandamus than prohibition. The procedural distinction between mandamus and prohibition, however, “is at best blurred, at worst nonexistent, and the subject matter to which the two writs apply overlap_” St. Louis Little Rock Hospital, Inc. v. Gaertner, 682 S.W.2d 146, 148 (Mo.App.1984). Thus,…