Legal Opinion
Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Nelson A. Rockefeller
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 18, 1973No. 596, Docket 72-1450PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
This appeal raises the question of whether the federal judiciary should, at the instance of victims, compel federal and state officials to investigate and prosecute persons who allegedly have violated certain federal and state criminal statutes. Plaintiffs in the purported class suit, which was commenced in the Southern District of New York against various state and federal officers, are certain present and former inmates of New York State’s Attica Correctional Facility (“Attica”), the mother of an inmate who was killed when Attica was retaken after the inmate…
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