Legal Opinion
Frinks v. North Carolina
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
Decided October 29, 1971No. 7188-CRPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*170ORDER
BUTLER, Chief Judge.
Each of the petitioners was arrested on or about June 10, 1971, and charged in the General Court of Justice of New Hanover County with violations of the North Carolina anti-riot statute. Prior to trial in the state court they filed a petition for removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The North Carolina General Statute § 14-288.2 reads in pertinent part: “(a) A riot is a public disturbance involving an assemblage of three or more persons which by disorderly and violent conduct, or the imminent…
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