McDONNELL v. JUVENILE COURT

No. 93SA175.

864 P.2d 565 (1993)

Barbara McDONNELL, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Institutions; and Colorado Department of Institutions, Petitioners, v. JUVENILE COURT IN AND FOR the SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF the STATE OF COLORADO, and the Honorable David E. Ramirez, one of the Judges thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 13, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., Paul Farley, Deputy Atty. Gen., John August Lizza, First Asst. Atty. Gen., and Toni Jo Gray, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for petitioners.

Kent Spangler, guardian ad litem, for Minor Child, J.M.


Justice ERICKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this original proceeding the petitioners seek relief in the nature of prohibition and assert that we should invoke our general superintending power.1 The petitioners also seek to prevent the respondent judge from using the contempt power to force compliance with his orders. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

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