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STATE EX REL. SIMANEK v. BERRY

No. WD 31304.

597 S.W.2d 718 (1980)

STATE ex rel. Joe SIMANEK, Attorney at Law, on his behalf, and that of his client, Relator, v. The Honorable George BERRY, Judge, Probate Division of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Missouri, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

April 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Simanek, Michael Thompson, Missouri Institutional Law Project, Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Kansas City, for relator.

Stephen H. Stiller, Asst. County Counselor, Kansas City, for respondent.

Before WASSERSTROM, C. J., and SHANGLER, DIXON, SWOFFORD, TURNAGE, CLARK and KENNEDY, JJ.

TURNAGE, Judge.

Joe Simanek filed a petition for writ of prohibition on behalf of himself and M.C., his client, to prohibit the judge of the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Jackson County from compelling Simanek to file an answer in a proceeding for the involuntary detention and treatment of M.C. under Chapter 202, RSMo 1978.* A preliminary rule in prohibition was issued.

A petition for involuntary detention and treatment...

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