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STATE OF N. J. v. CHESIMARD

No. 77-1104.

555 F.2d 63 (1977)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. CHESIMARD, Joanne D., (a/k/a) Assata Shakur, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Reargued February 18, 1977.

Decided March 9, 1977.

As Amended March 24 and 29, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Kunstler, Lewis Meyers, Nat. Conference of Black Lawyers, New York City for appellant.

John W. Corwin Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, Stephen M. Latimer, Rutgers University Law School Prison Law Clinic, Newark, N. J., Sa'ad El-Amin, World Community of Islam in the West, Chicago, Ill., Sanford M. Katz, Yasim Mosque, New York City, amici curiae in support of appellant.

C. Judson Hamlin, Middlesex County Prosecutor, William Welaj, Nicholas J. Stroumtsos, Jr., Asst. Prosecutors, New Brunswick, N. J., for appellee.

William F. Hyland, Atty. Gen. of N. J., Trenton, N. J., Daniel Louis Grossman Deputy Atty. Gen., Div. of Criminal Justice, Appellate Section, David S. Baime, John De Cicco, Deputy Attys. Gen., Princeton, N. J., amici curiae in support of appellee.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and MARIS, VAN DUSEN, ALDISERT, ADAMS, GIBBONS, ROSENN, HUNTER, WEIS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

Reargued In Banc February 18, 1977.

Before VAN DUSEN, MARIS and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.

Reargued in banc Feb. 18, 1977.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and MARIS, VAN DUSEN, ALDISERT, ADAMS, GIBBONS, ROSENN, HUNTER, WEIS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

The major question for decision is whether the principles of Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct...

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