PUGH v. RAINWATER

Civ. No. 71-488.

355 F.Supp. 1286 (1973)

Robert PUGH and Nathaniel Henderson, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated et al., Plaintiffs, v. James RAINWATER et al., Defendants.

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

February 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Rogow, Rene V. Murai, Miami, Fla., Phillip A. Hubbart, Public Defender of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Dade County, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs.

Jack R. Blumenfeld, Asst. State's Atty., Miami, Fla., for defendant Gerstein.

Alan H. Rothstein, City Atty., Larry J. Hirsch, Asst. City Atty., Miami, Fla., for defendant Bernard E. Garmire.

Stuart Simon, County Atty., Alan T. Dimond, Asst. County Atty., Miami, Fla., for defendant E. Wilson Purdy.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., State of Florida, Barry Scott Richard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, Fla., for defendants Sutton, Rainwater, Snowden, Adair, Berkman, and Ferguson.

Joseph Pardo, Miami, Fla., for defendant Sidney L. Segall.

Joseph A. Wanick, City Atty., Henry A. Edgar, Jr., Asst. City Atty., Miami Beach, Fla., for defendant Rocky Pomerance.

Aaron A. Foosaner, Miami, Fla., for defendant Morton L. Perry.

Ralph F. Miles, Hialeah, Fla., for defendant David Maynard.

August, Nimkoff & Gladstone, Pearson & Josefsberg, Jepeway, Gassen & Jepeway, Miami, Fla., for amicus curiae, Dade County Bar Assn.


JAMES LAWRENCE KING, District Judge.

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HISTORY

This action brought almost two years ago by Florida prisoners held for trial without ever having received an impartial judicial determination of probable cause for their detention, now comes before the court for detailed findings on the extent to which present state practice falls short of meeting constitutional requirements. In an order of October 12, 1972, this court initially ruled that both the...

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