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STATE EX REL. PUB. DEFEND. COM'N v. BONACKER

Nos. 67811, 67822, 67862 and 67912.

706 S.W.2d 449 (1986)

STATE ex rel. PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION, Relator, v. Honorable Don BONACKER, Judge, Circuit Court, Greene County, Respondent, STATE ex rel. PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION, Relator, v. Honorable Frank CONLEY, Judge, Circuit Court, Boone County, Respondent, STATE ex rel. PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION, Relator, v. Honorable Byron KINDER, Judge, Circuit Court, Cole County, Respondent, STATE ex rel. PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION, Relator, v. Honorable Richard PROVAZNIK, Judge, Circuit Court, St. Louis County, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

As Modified April 1, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean O'Brien, Public Defender, Kansas City, Terry Brummer, Lew Kollias, Office of the State Public Defender, Columbia, for relator.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Jerry L. Short, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

BILLINGS, Judge.

These four test cases by the Public Defender Commission seek rulings from this Court that would prohibit the circuit courts of this state from appointing attorneys employed by the Commission to represent prisoners in post-conviction proceedings under our Rule 27.26. Because of the nature of the cases and our awareness that similar writs are pending or in the offing, we expedited setting, briefing and argument.

In the petition for a writ of...

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