Grayson ex rel. Grayson v. Eisenstadt

OPINION

JULIAN, District Judge.

This is a civil action in which plaintiff, having been convicted in the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of three criminal offenses, seeks a declaratory judgment, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, that certain alleged actions by officers of *980that court unconstitutionally coerced him into withdrawing his appeals to the State Superior Court. The amended complaint characterizes the action as one arising under the Civil Rights Act of 1871,1 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to redress the deprivation under color of state law of rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth,…