STATE EX REL. LONG v. WARRICK CIRCUIT CT.

No. 87S00-9112-OR-991.

591 N.E.2d 559 (1992)

STATE of Indiana On the Relation of S. Anthony Long, Prosecuting Attorney of Warrick County, Indiana, Relator, v. THE WARRICK CIRCUIT COURT AND THE HONORABLE DONALD G. HENDRICKSON, As Judge Thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

May 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Aylsworth, Deputy Pros. Atty., Boonnville, for relator.

Theodore Lockyear, James A. Kornblum, Lockyear & Kornblum, Evansville, for respondents.

James D. Humphrey, Chairman, Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council, Lawrenceburg, Richard P. Good, Jr., Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council, Indianapolis, for Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council.


CIVIL ORIGINAL ACTION

DeBRULER, Justice.

In September, 1991, respondent court received two letters, one purportedly signed under the penalties of perjury, alleging misfeasance by a county employee and requesting a special prosecutor. Long, the local prosecutor, relator here, was described as having a conflict of interest calling for his disqualification because he was also county attorney and county Democrat chairman.

Respondent filed the letters...

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