Limited Federal Civil Rights Jurisdiction
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WASHINGTON, June 20.
The United States Supreme Court ruled today that civil rights prosecutions may be removed from State to Federal courts only in limited circumstances.
To rule otherwise, Justice Potter Stewart said, would “work a wholesale dislocation of the historic relationships between the State and Federal courts in the administration of criminal law.”
In the case on which Judge Stewart spoke, the Court, by a 54 vote, said 29 people arrested on various local charges in 1964 in Leflore County, Mississippi, could not have their trials transferred from State to Federal courts. Judge Stewart said: “No federal law confers an absolute right on private citizens —on civil rights advocates, on Negroes, or on anybody else —to obstruct a public street, to contribute to the delinquency of a minor, to drive
an automobile without a 11cence, or to bite a policeman.” Further, he said, no Federal law conferred immunity from State prosecution on such charges.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31093, 23 June 1966, Page 5
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164Limited Federal Civil Rights Jurisdiction Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31093, 23 June 1966, Page 5
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