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STATE EX REL. STERLING v. LONG

No. 68031.

719 S.W.2d 455 (1986)

STATE ex rel. Peter N. STERLING, Public Defender, Relator, v. Honorable Douglas E. LONG, Judge, Circuit Court, 25th Judicial Circuit, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

November 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet Thompson, Columbia, for relator.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Deborah Neff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

BILLINGS, Judge.

The only issue for resolution in this prohibition proceeding is whether the trial court can compel, under penalty of contempt, a public defender to represent an alleged indigent father in a civil contempt proceeding for failure to pay child support.

For the reasons expressed by this Court in State ex rel. Marshall v. Blaeuer, 709 S.W.2d 111 (Mo. banc 1986), the respondent judge had no authority...

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