FREED

v.

BALDI ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Connally v. Georgia, 429 U.S. 245 (U.S. 1977)
  …d to what surely is judicial action by an officer of a court who has “a direct, personal, substantial, pecuniary interest” in his conclusion to issue or to deny the warrant. See Bennett v. Cottingham, 290 F. Supp. 759, 762-763 (ND Ala. 1968), aff’d, 393 U. S. 317 (1969). Shadwick v. City of Tampa, 407 U. S. 345 (1972), does not weigh to the contrary. The issue there centered in the qualification of municipal court clerks to issue arrest warrants for breaches of ordinances. The Court held that the clerks, al…
• Callahan v. Wallace, 466 F.2d 59 (5th Cir. 1972)
  …tutional as applied in traffic cases two sections of the Alabama Code 1 which fixed the fees for the justices and provided for their taxation as costs but only in the event of conviction. The Supreme Court affirmed that decision on January 13, 1969, 393 U.S. 317, 89 S.Ct. 554, 21 L. Ed.2d 513 (1969). Nevertheless, county sheriffs and state troopers subsequently making arrests for highway violations continued in many instances to file the charges in justice courts. The plaintiffs submitted evidence that dur…