UNITED STATES EX REL. POPE v. BRUCKNO

Civ. A. No. 69-2364.

330 F.Supp. 793 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James T. POPE v. Walter BRUCKNO, Vocational Director, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 26, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Pope, pro se.

Michael Luber, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dante Mattioni, Deputy Atty. Gen., J. Shane Creamer, Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM

JOHN W. LORD, Jr., Chief Judge.

Presently before the Court is defendant's motion to dismiss on the grounds that a private citizen cannot initiate a criminal prosecution in his own name in Federal Court. The motion to dismiss was filed with this Court on July 19, 1971. Plaintiff filed his reply on August 12, 1971.

The above entitled civil complaint was filed on October 9, 1969, the allegations of jurisdiction being the United States Constitution...

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