Legal Opinion
Pugh v. Rainwater
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 15, 1973No. 72-1585PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
We review here a District Court’s holding that each Dade County, Florida arrestee held for trial upon an information filed by the state attorney is entitled by the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to an expeditious hearing before a judicial officer on the question of probable cause for arrest.1 To implement this holding, the court later adopted a plan submitted by Sheriff E. Wilson Purdy (hereinafter the Purdy Plan), which required, inter alia, that persons arrested with or without warrants in Dade County, be accorded expeditious preliminary hearings before a magistrate…
2Cases cited45 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Morrissey v. BrewerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Horace Luckey, III v. Joe Frank Harris, GovernorCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Robert Pugh and Nathaniel Henderson v. James RainwaterCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Lataille v. District Court of Eastern HampdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- State v. WatsonIdaho Supreme Court · 1978
- Eusebia Fernandez Etc. v. Honorable Jose Trias Monge Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1978
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