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Domestic Relations: Unauthorized Treatment Court Division-Prohibition Proceeding

Staff Report//September 23, 2019//

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Domestic Relations: Unauthorized Treatment Court Division-Prohibition Proceeding

Domestic Relations: Unauthorized Treatment Court Division-Prohibition Proceeding

Staff Report//September 23, 2019//

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Relator filed a petition for writ of prohibition seeking an order directing respondent to cease operation of a “domestic abuse court,” which was an created by respondent, who placed defendants in the DAC as a special condition of their probation.

Where the DAC was not designated a treatment court division by the local circuit court rules and where respondent was not authorized to hear cases in treatment court divisions, the court issued a permanent writ of prohibition directing respondent to cease operation of the DAC.

Preliminary writ of prohibition made permanent.

State ex rel. Patterson v. Holden (MLW No. 73951/Case No. SD35998 – 13 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Francis, J.) Original proceeding in prohibition

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