Legal Opinion
Robert W. Baucom v. John R. Martin, as District Attorney Pro Tem, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, Georgia
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 7, 1982No. 81-7171PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge:
A special agent of the FBI, Robert W. Baucom, brought this suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent his threatened state prosecution by defendant, John R. Martin, District Attorney pro tern, for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, Georgia. Baucom had participated during the course of an investigation in an alleged bribery attempt of a state prosecutor. The district court granted plaintiff declaratory judgment finding that his acts in the bribery scheme were within his authority as an FBI agent, and that therefore any state conviction of…
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