IN RE VAUTER

Record No. 151723.

793 S.E.2d 793 (2016)

IN RE: Rebecca VAUTER, Director, Central State Hospital.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

December 15, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alice T. Armstrong , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General; Braden J. Curtis , Assistant Attorney General; James F. Entas , Assistant Attorney General, on brief), for petitioner.

John P. O'Herron ( William W. Tunner ; David N. Gustin ; Thompson McMullan , on brief), Richmond, for respondent.

PRESENT: All the Justices


OPINION BY JUSTICE S. BERNARD GOODWYN

In this original jurisdiction case, we consider whether a writ of prohibition lies to prevent a circuit court from hearing a habeas corpus petition challenging a pre-trial detention order entered by a different circuit court pursuant to Code § 19.2-169.3(F).

BACKGROUND

On October 4, 2000, a grand jury for the City of Alexandria indicted Gregory Devon Murphy (Murphy) for capital murder of a...

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