Ex Parte Rives

* Reporter's note: On February 20, 1987, the Alabama Supreme Court, on certiorari review, issued an opinion; on May 15, 1987, the Supreme Court granted rehearing, withdrew its opinion, and quashed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.

This case involves a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the Honorable Byron N. Waldrop to recuse himself from presiding over a juvenile case and also to require him to vacate an order prohibiting discovery in that same case.

In September 1981 Patricia Hopper, the natural mother of Tiffany Amanda Whiting Poole, asked Richard and Nelda Rives if…