State ex rel. George v. Jones

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

PRELIMINARY ORDER IN PROHIBITION MADE ABSOLUTE

PARRISH, Judge.

Relator is the prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County, Missouri. He seeks to prohibit the respondent associate circuit judge from enforcing an order directing the state to make disclosures pursuant to a request for discovery made by a criminal defendant prior to his preliminary hearing. This court issued a Preliminary Order in Prohibition that prohibited the respondent judge from requiring the state to make the requested disclosures. That order is made absolute.

A case is pending in the Associate…