State Ex Rel. Burrell-El v. Autrey

SIMEONE, Senior Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition to prohibit the respondents, Hon. Henry E. Autrey and Hon. James R. Dowd, Associate Circuit Judges in the City of St. Louis, from enforcing their orders of direct criminal contempt directed to relator for refusing to remove his headdress or “fez” while in court because of relator’s alleged religious beliefs. We have jurisdiction. Mo. Const., Art. V, § 4. On March 2,1988, we issued our preliminary order. We now make our preliminary order permanent.

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These proceedings began when relator was arrested on December 10, 1987, for…