Roberts v. Lowry

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING ON MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE PETITIONS FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS OR PROHIBITION

SAM BASS, Justice.

Relator, Lamont Roberts, a juvenile charged with murder, challenges the authority of Harris County District Attorney John B. Holmes, Jr., to prosecute juvenile certification proceedings against the relator. Relator asks this Court to order Holmes to withdraw from the prosecution of this ease and to order the trial judge, the Honorable Robert Lowry, to strike Holmes’ pleadings. We overrule the motion for leave to file.

Initially we note that this Court’s general authority to issue…