Legal Opinion
Kennedy v. Wisconsin
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided March 21, 1974No. 73-C-92PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION and ORDER
MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.
The state seeks an order remanding this criminal prosecution to the state *520court branch to which it was originally-assigned by lot, and from which the defendant, Nathaniel Kennedy, petitioned this court for removal.
Mr. Kennedy is charged with obstructing an officer, endangering that officer’s safety by conduct regardless of life, and possession of marijuana. He claims that the judge to which his case was assigned is .“racially prejudiced” and “pro-police”; removal is required, according to Mr. Kennedy, in order to protect his sixth and…
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- Rand v. State of ArkansasDistrict Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1961
- Fred L. Shuttlesworth v. City of BirminghamCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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- People of State of New York v. JenkinsDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1976