Africa v. Anderson

OPINION

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action in which plaintiffs initially sought to recover damages and obtain equitable relief, claiming that at Ms. Africa’s criminal trial, conducted in the summer of 1980, she had been deprived of her religious freedom by Judge Anderson’s requirement that she be represented by A. Benjamin Johnson, Esquire, as her court-appointed counsel. On December 31, 1980, I entered an Order dismissing the damages claim in plaintiffs’ complaint, thereby leaving only an action for a declaratory judgment. Since then, both defendants have filed…