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JOHNSON v. CITY OF PLAINFIELD

Civ. No. 87-4335.

731 F.Supp. 689 (1990)

Wilberta JOHNSON, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF PLAINFIELD, Thomas Frank, John C. Propsner, Jr., Harold Gibson, Jerome Harris, Richard Taylor, Harold W. Mitchell, Gwendolyn Crews, John M. Bramnick, John C. Campbell, Francis Meeks III, Joseph Scott, Elizabeth Urauhart, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

March 8, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel A. Williamson, Plainfield, N.J., for defendants.

Jack N. Frost, Plainfield, N.J., for plaintiffs.

Agnes I. Rymer, Clapp & Eisenberg, Newark, N.J., Special Master appointed by Judge Sarokin.

SAROKIN, District Judge.

In an earlier opinion this court warned of the dangers to our democracy in permitting searches of the innocent in order to find the guilty.

If we choose to violate the rights of the innocent in order to discover and act against the guilty, then we will have transformed our country into a police state and abandoned one of the fundamental tenets of our free society. In order to win the war against drugs, we must not sacrifice the life...

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