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REWIS v. WAINWRIGHT

Civ. No. 69-78.

300 F.Supp. 82 (1969)

James Walter REWIS, Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. Florida, Miami Division.

June 3, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan E. Weinstein, Miami Beach, Fla., for petitioner.

Melvin Grossman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, Fla., for respondent.

ORDER

EATON, District Judge.

On September 26, 1966, the sheriff of Hendry County, Florida, and the trial Judge scheduled to try a criminal case that morning, had coffee together. The defendants at the trial were to be James Walter Rewis and Ronald Rewis, brothers. The Sheriff told the Judge that he had reliable information that Ronald Rewis had said that "if the son-of-a-bitch judge sentences me, I will kill him in the courtroom." Apparently the Judge was...

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