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GROVES v. DIST. CT. FOR 17TH JUD. DIST.

No. 90SA393.

806 P.2d 947 (1991)

Vincent GROVES, Petitioner, v. The DISTRICT COURT In and For the SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF the STATE OF COLORADO, and the Honorable Thomas Ensor, one of the Judges Thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Vela, State Public Defender, Robert W. Pepin, Deputy State Public Defender, Brighton, for petitioner.

James F. Smith, Dist. Atty., Steven L. Bernard, Chief Trial Deputy, Brighton, for respondents.

Justice ERICKSON delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This case is an original proceeding under C.A.R. 21 to prohibit the trial court from ordering the public defender's office to prosecute a contempt citation against a witness who failed to appear during the first-degree murder trial of Vincent Groves. We issued a rule to show cause and stayed enforcement of the contempt citation. We now make the rule absolute.

Vincent Groves was charged with first-degree...

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