PEOPLE v. COUNTY COURT

No. 91CA1872.

854 P.2d 1341 (1992)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner-Appellant, v. The COUNTY COURT, CITY & COUNTY OF DENVER, and the Honorable Robert L. Patterson, one of the judges of the County Court, Respondents-Appellees, and Phillip Morris, Intervenor-Appellee.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Rehearing Denied December 24, 1992.

Certiorari Denied June 14, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman S. Early, Jr., Dist. Atty., Everett B. Engstrom, Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for petitioner-appellant.

No appearance for respondents-appellees.

Daniel W. Edwards, Denver, for intervenor-appellee.


Opinion by Judge SMITH.

The People appeal the district court's judgment denying their petition under C.R.C.P. 106(a)(4) for a writ of prohibition against the county court. We affirm.

The relevant facts are not in dispute. A Denver deputy district attorney (Denver Deputy), while in the county courthouse on unrelated matters, recognized the intervenor, Phillip Morris, as the defendant in a pending county court criminal...

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