IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
STATE OF ARIZONA
DIVISION ONE
RICHARD GLASSEL, ) Court of Appeals
) Division One
Petitioner, ) No. 1 CA-SA 09-0053
)
v. ) Maricopa County
) Superior Court
THE HONORABLE GARY DONAHOE, ) No. CR2000-006872
Judge of the SUPERIOR COURT OF )
THE STATE OF ARIZONA, in and for )
the County of MARICOPA, )
)
Respondent Judge, ) DECISION ORDER
)
STATE OF ARIZONA ex rel. TERRY )
GODDARD, Attorney General, )
)
Real Party in Interest. )
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This matter came on for conference on April 14, 2009 before
Presiding Judge Philip Hall and Judges Maurice Portley and
Michael J. Brown, participating. We notified the parties that
we accepted jurisdiction with a decision to follow. We accepted
jurisdiction because petitioner has no “equally plain, speedy,
and adequate remedy by appeal” from the respondent judge’s order
denying petitioner’s ex parte motion to seal his previously
filed document entitled “Ex Parte Pleading in Support of Motion
for Expert Witness Fees.” See Ariz. R.P. Spec. Act. 3(a). We
deny relief because petitioner is not entitled to have the
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respondent judge review his motion to seal his previously filed
ex parte pleading on an ex parte basis. State v. Apelt, 176
Ariz. 349, 365, 861 P.2d 634, 650 (1993) (reject