Cooney v. Park County
Wyoming Supreme Court
1DissentUrbigkit, Justice
I. THE ISSUE IN PERSPECTIVE
This case questions whether society provides a remedy when public officials commit perjury, suborn perjury and acknowledge commission of perjury in the pointless and almost random incarceration of a person without justification. In refusing to consider only disbarment, censure or criminal prosecution, none of which will occur, I will not reject civil damages for at least an attainable alternative. This is civil war; not by members of the society against the government, but by representatives of government against its citizens. This is statism1 at its worst. This is…
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