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STATE EX REL. LAWSON v. WILKES

No. 24582.

501 S.E.2d 470 (1998)

202 W.Va. 34

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Deborah A. LAWSON and the Public Defender Corporation for the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, Petitioners, v. Honorable Christopher WILKES, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, and Ismael Velasquez, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided February 25, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. Lawson, Public Defender Corporation, Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, Charles Town, for Petitioners.

PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION

DAVIS, Chief Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition, the petitioners, Deborah A. Lawson, an attorney at law, and the Public Defender Corporation for the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, her employer, ask this court to prohibit the Circuit Court of Jefferson County from compelling the Public Defender Corporation, as guardian ad litem for an incarcerated convict...

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