Reverend John M. Perkins v. State of Mississippi

(dissenting) :

Viewed from any realistic perspective this case marks a critical stage in the *12evolutionary development of Federal civil rights removal jurisdiction. Rev. Perkins is Mordecai at the Gate.1 His allegations and proof demand that we let him in.

The complexities we face are not factual ones. We need not resolve credibility choices or conflicting inferences to determine what happened to these petitioners. No matter whose version is accepted the record is replete with uncontested evidence of patently frivolous arrests for nonexistent offenses, threatened and actual physical violence,…