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UNITED STATES EX REL. RABY v. WOODS

No. 18389.

440 F.2d 478 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Albert A. RABY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Joseph I. WOODS, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, and Winston M. Moore, Warden of the Cook County Jail, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

March 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. McClory, Chicago, Ill., Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Atty., County of Cook, Chicago, Ill., for appellants; Elmer C. Kissane, Chief of the Criminal Division, of counsel.

Leo E. Holt and Maria A. Elden, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before MAJOR, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS and PELL, Circuit Judges.

MAJOR, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case had its genesis in a civil rights movement participated in by a large number of persons, of whom Albert A. Raby, petitioner, was a leader. The participants, including Raby, marched to the intersection of Randolph and La Salle in the City of Chicago, Illinois, at about 5 p. m. on June 28, 1965, at the peak of the evening rush hour, where a number either sat or lay in the intersection, thereby blocking all traffic for a considerable...

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