MARTIN v. ATTAWAY

Civ. A. No. CV380-0071.

506 F.Supp. 603 (1981)

John MARTIN, Rev. E. J. Wilson, Ben Wilcher, Curtis Clover, Terry Taylor, Escar Pierce, Kendrick Lemon, Willie Juris Graddy, Alvin Darrisaw, Josh Knight, Early Clover, Riley Brown, Ralph Cason, Willie James Taylor, Individually; and Clinton Jenkins, Individually, And On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. Samuel Roland ATTAWAY, Individually, And In His Official Capacity As Sheriff of Johnson County, Georgia; Linton H. Smith, Individually, And In His Official Capacity As Chief of Police of Wrightsville, Georgia; Willis Wombles, Individually, And In His Official Capacity As Mayor of Wrightsville, Georgia; Beverly B. Hayes, Individually, And In His Official Capacity As District Attorney For the Dublin, Georgia, Judicial Circuit; and Joe Doe, Richard Roe, William Zoe and other Unknown Persons, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Georgia, Dublin Division.

January 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton Stavis, Arthur Kinoy, Frank E. Deale, Randolph M. McLaughlin, Doris Peterson, of Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, Edward E. Augustine, Atlanta, Ga., Katrina Breeding, Albert A. Mitchell, Brian Spears, Charles Thornton, Celeste Owens, Thomas West, Atlanta, Ga., Roosevelt Warren, Sparta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Wm. Washington Larsen, Jr., Dublin, Ga., Daryl Robinson, Staff Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.


ORDER

BOWEN, District Judge.

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1971, 1981, 1983, 1985(3), 1986, 1988, and 1989, named plaintiffs brought this action, styled a class action, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The gravamen of plaintiffs' complaint, as stated at paragraph 52, is that criminal prosecutions of plaintiffs currently pending in Johnson County Superior Court:

are brought by Defendants in bad faith, for purposes of harassment and...

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