Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Cole
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided October 3, 1968No. Civ. A. GC6842-KPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
READY, Chief Judge.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This is an action brought by plaintiffs, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to secure a preliminary and permanent injunction restraining defendants and their successors in office from trying plaintiffs, who are indigent juveniles, on charges of delinquency in the youth court or for misdemeanors in the Mayor’s court without advising them of their right to counsel pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and without appointing counsel to represent their interests, in the absence of an intelligent and voluntary…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Douglas v. City of JeannetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Clyde Harvey v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Ezell Littleton v. Peyton Berbling, Individually and as State's Attorney for Alexander County, IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1972
- Bramlett v. PetersonDistrict Court, M.D. Florida · 1969
- Baldwin v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1982
- Nicholson v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar Ass'nDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1972
- Sweeten v. SneddonDistrict Court, D. Utah · 1971
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