State ex rel. Thurman v. Franklin

SHRUM, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. We must decide if our preliminary order to respondent Circuit Judge James A. Franklin Jr. should be made absolute. Our preliminary order prohibited the respondent from enforcing his order that the Henry County sheriff testify at deposition concerning his knowledge of arrests of Howard M. Bradley. The sheriff claimed he could not answer the questions because Bradley’s arrest records are closed to the public. We have concluded that the sheriff may testify about Bradley’s arrests to the extent that his knowledge is in no way derived…