METROS v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR DIST. OF COLO.

No. 432-70.

441 F.2d 313 (1970)

Steve METROS, T. E. Coogan, Michael Dowd, et al., Petitioners, v. The UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR the DISTRICT OF COLORADO, William E. Doyle, one of the Judges thereof, and Robert L. Schoengarth, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley H. Doan, Denver, Colo. (Joseph N. Lilly, Denver, Colo., with him on the brief), for petitioners.

William M. Cohen, Boulder, Colo. (Legal Aid and Defender Program, Boulder, Colorado, with him on the brief), for respondents.

Thomas P. Casey, Deputy Dist. Atty. (Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen. of Colo., John P. Moore, Deputy Atty. Gen., George E. DeRoos and Eugene C. Cavaliere, Asst. Attys. Gen., James D. McKevitt, Dist. Atty., Second Judicial District, Gregory A. Mueller, Asst. Dist. Atty., Jarvis W. Seccombe, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Max P. Zall, City Atty., City and County of Denver, James H. Snyder, and Gerald Himelgrin, Asst. City Atty., with him on the brief), as amicus curiae.

Brief submitted by George A. Aucoin, Denver, Colo., for Colorado Chapter, Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc., and Frank G. Carrington, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Executive Director, Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc., as amicus curiae.

Before HILL, SETH and HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judges.


SETH, Circuit Judge.

This matter is before us on an application for a writ of prohibition directed to a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

The plaintiff in the civil action from which these proceedings arose had theretofore entered a plea of guilty in the District Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, to an information charging him with unlawful possession of heroin in violation of the laws of Colorado. He...

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