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STATE EX REL. CHARLESTON MAIL v. RANSON

No. 23873.

488 S.E.2d 5 (1997)

200 W.Va. 5

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. The CHARLESTON MAIL ASSOCIATION and The Daily Gazette Company, Relators, v. Honorable Lyne RANSON, Judge of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County; William C. Forbes, Prosecuting Attorney for Kanawha County; and Frank E. West, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided March 14, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Brown, Jackson & Kelly, Charleston, for Relator, The Charleston Mail Association.

Rudolph L. DiTrapano, Sean P. McGinley, DiTrapano & Jackson, Charleston, for Relator, The Daily Gazette Company.

J.C. Powell, Powell Law Offices, Charleston, for Respondent, Frank E. West.

DAVIS, Justice:

In this original proceeding for a writ of prohibition, the relators, the Charleston Mail Association and the Daily Gazette Company, request that we vacate an order entered November 7, 1996, by the respondent judge, the Honorable Lyne Ranson, of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County. The order denied the relators' motions to quash subpoenas duces tecum in which respondent Frank E. West requested photographs of a crime scene taken by the relators...

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