Legal Opinion
Charles Wesley and the Natural Rights Center v. David A. Collins, Coordinator of Elections and W.J. Michael Cody, Attorney General of Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 5, 1986No. 85-5271PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs/appellants Charles Wesley and the Natural Rights Center appealed the district court order dismissing their civil rights action which challenged the validity of the Tennessee statute disenfranchising convicted felons.
The Natural Rights Center is a public interest law project active in civil rights. Charles Wesley is an adult black citizen of Tennessee who pleaded guilty to a charge of being an accessory after the fact to the crime of larceny and received a suspended sentence. The offense is defined as a felony in Tennessee and Wesley was thereby…
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