Legal Opinion
Jack E. Turner v. E. T. Raynes and Bill Edd Jones
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 31, 1980No. 79-2037PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
In this civil rights case, plaintiff Turner was convicted of a nonexistent crime and briefly incarcerated before obtaining release by means of a state writ of habeas corpus. His consequent suit for violation of rights protected by the Constitution and by 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suffered summary judgment on immunity grounds. He appeals, and we affirm.
Even a summary statement of the facts is somewhat startling. Turner and a neighbor had a boundary dispute. The neighbor applied to defendant Raynes, a Texas justice of the peace, for a peace bond, and Turner was duly required to post…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Bradley v. FisherSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
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3Cited by37 opinions
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