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EX PARTE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION

Civ. 5108.

491 So.2d 956 (1986)

Ex parte The DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION of the State of Alabama. (In the Matter of Jeffrey Lee VAUGHN, a child under 18 years of age).

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied April 23, 1986.

Certiorari Denied July 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G.R. Trawick, Patricia E. Shaner, M. Dixon Torbert, and Charles H. Durham, III, Montgomery, for appellant.

Gregory P. Thomas, Dothan, Guardian ad Litem for Jeffrey Lee Vaughn.

Don P. Bennett of Herring & Bennett, Dothan, for respondents William D. McFatter and Southeast Alabama Youth Services.

Alabama Supreme Court 85-918.

HOLMES, Judge.

This case is before this court on the petition of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (DMH) for a writ of prohibition to be issued to the judge of the Houston County Juvenile Court. We find that the petition is due to be denied.

The case arises from a complicated set of circumstances involving proceedings in two counties for the disposition of a juvenile. On August 23, 1985, the...

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