LEWIS v. CITY OF HARRISBURG


158 Pa.Commw. 318 (1993)

631 A.2d 807

Richard A. LEWIS, District Attorney of Dauphin County on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. CITY OF HARRISBURG and County of Dauphin and William H. Livingston, Sheriff of Dauphin County. Appeal of CITY OF HARRISBURG, Appellant.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 7, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jill A. Devine, Acting City Sol., for appellant.

William T. Tully, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Before DOYLE and SMITH, JJ., and LORD, Senior Judge.


DOYLE, Judge.

Before us is an appeal by the City of Harrisburg from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County which granted a preliminary injunction restraining the City from ceasing its practice of transporting prisoners from and to preliminary arraignments and preliminary hearings.

The case history is as follows. In Dauphin County all prisoners, regardless of the criminal charges placed against them, have been transported to their preliminary...

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