Liciaga v. Court of Common Pleas

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

NIX, Chief Justice.

Petitioner, Harry Liciaga, filed in this Court a petition for writ of prohibition challenging the appropriateness of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County’s grant of a writ of certiorari. The issue presented is whether, after all *261charges at a preliminary hearing have been dismissed, a writ of certiorari is available to test the legality of the district justice’s determination that no prima facie case exists. Petitioner argues that the Commonwealth must rearrest an individual after the dismissal of charges at a preliminary…