Allen v. Warden

These proceedings concern habeas corpus petitions of six individuals who were ordered incarcerated in the community correctional center by the Circuit Court because of their inability to pay fines which were imposed on the day they were ordered taken into custody. While the primary fulcrum of the petitions relates to a claim of a violation of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, as the defendant concedes in his brief, ancillary issues also evolved at the hearings held by this court, requiring in addition the determination whether…