Hill v. Bartlett

Clark, Judge.

Lawyer sues judge! That headline happening confronts us in this appeal where an ardent advocate zealous in protecting the traditional independence of the American attorney clashes with a conscientious police court magistrate imbued with an earnest desire for constitutional compliance in administering justice to indigent persons presented for trial in his tribunal.

As Judge of the Recorder’s Court of the City of Albany, Bartlett learned some time prior to July 8, 1970, that a federal judge in Atlanta had sustained a habeas corpus proceeding which discharged all prisoners serving…