STATE EX REL. SHAW v. PROVAZNIK

No. 50935.

708 S.W.2d 337 (1986)

STATE of Missouri, ex rel., William J. SHAW, Public Defender for the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, Relator, v. The Hon. Richard F. PROVAZNIK, Division Sixteen of the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied April 22, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah Pleban, Asst. Public Defender, St. Louis, for relator.

Deborah Neff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


KELLY, Presiding Judge.

Relator, William J. Shaw, the Public Defender for the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, seeks our writ of prohibition, enjoining the Honorable Richard F. Provaznik from appointing the St. Louis County Public Defender as counsel for David M. Crosby in a civil contempt proceeding arising out of Crosby's failure to make child support payments. This court issued a preliminary writ of prohibition on December 6, 1985. We now make the preliminary writ...

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