Legal Opinion
Cantrell v. Folsom
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided July 29, 1971No. Civ. 71-333PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
CHARLES R. SCOTT, District Judge.
On May 10, 1971, petitioners submitted their petitions for writs of habeas corpus attacking their convictions and detention as unlawful due to the unconstitutionality of the vagrancy ordinance under which they were arrested alleging it to be so vague, indefinite and over-broad as to constitute a denial of due process.
The particular ordinance in question reads: “It shall be unlawful for any person to commit, within the limits of the city, any act which is recognized by the Florida Statutes as a misdemeanor, and the commission of such act is hereby…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- United States v. HarrissSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Carafas v. LaValleeSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Coates v. City of CincinnatiSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Douglas v. City of JeannetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Wolf v. Commissioner of Public WelfareMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Baker v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
- Brown v. Liberty Loan Corporation of DuvalDistrict Court, M.D. Florida · 1974
- Carl Johannes Anderson v. Walter C. Nemetz, Individually and as Chief of the City of Scottsdale Police DepartmentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1973
- Jean v. MeissnerDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 1981
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