Walter Bell, Jr. v. The Honorable Judge George D. Taylor, and District Attorney Tom Hanna for Jefferson County, Texas

Bell seeks to remove his state prosecution for two counts of capital murder and one count of attempting to pass a forged instrument to federal court under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1443, claiming that the alleged refusal of the state trial judge to give him sufficient time to analyze certain physical evidence in the prosecution’s possession was the product of racial prejudice. The district court dismissed the petition without a hearing and remanded the prosecution to the state courts. We affirm.

In Georgia v. Rachel, 1966, 384 U.S. 780, 86 S.Ct. 1783, 16 L.Ed.2d 925, the Supreme Court formulated two…