State v. Carrillo

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal brought by Sharon Carrillo from an order of the trial court denying her motion to disqualify the State’s attorneys from further participation in her prosecution for murder, holding that the appeal was interlocutory.Carrillo moved to disqualify the State’s attorneys for participating further in her prosecution, arguing that the prosecutors committed ethical violations by obtaining certain subpoenaed information. The trial court denied the motion to disqualify, determining that the prosecutors’ error did not warrant the extraordinary remedy of disqualification. Carrido appealed. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal as interlocutory, holding the Carrillo did not meet her burden of demonstrating that the exception to the final judgment rule applied. View "State v. Carrillo" on Justia Law