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COLEMAN v. YOKUM

Civ. A. No. 69-32.

320 F.Supp. 50 (1970)

Freeman COLEMAN v. Honorable Leonard YOKUM, District Attorney, 21st Judicial District, State of Louisiana.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

December 1, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Roberts, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff.

Leonard Yokum, Dist. Atty., Joseph H. Simpson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Twenty-First Judicial District, Amite. La., for defendant.

Before AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge, WEST and CASSIBRY, District Judges.

WEST, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff, Freeman Coleman, has been under indictment for murder since November 13, 1959, and has not yet been tried. He brings this suit for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief to prevent the State of Louisiana from prosecuting him further on the grounds that he has been denied his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. Because one of plaintiff's contentions involves a claim that Article 580 of the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure...

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