State of North Carolina v. Grant, 71-1628
Decision Date | 07 January 1972 |
Docket Number | 71-1767.,No. 71-1628,71-1628 |
Citation | 452 F.2d 780 |
Parties | STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Appellee, v. Lyman GRANT, Appellant. Lyman Eugene GRANT, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA and Greene County Superior Court, Snow Hill, North Carolina, Appellee. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fourth Circuit |
J. Harvey Turner, Kinston, N. C., on brief for appellant Lyman Grant.
J. Harvey Turner and C. E. Gerrans, Kinston, N. C., on brief for appellant Lyman Eugene Grant, Jr.
Before BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BRYAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.
Lyman Grant, appellant in No. 71-1628, and his son, Lyman Eugene Grant, Jr., appellant in No. 71-1767, sought to remove certain criminal prosecutions from the state to the federal courts under the Civil Rights Removal Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1443. The issues presented in these appeals are the same and the cases will be considered together. Appellants now contend that the district court erred in remanding these prosecutions to the state court without holding an evidentiary hearing.
On January 11, 1971, the Grand Jury of the Superior Court of Lenoir County, North Carolina, returned nine separate indictments charging the appellant, Lyman Grant, with larceny. On March 15, 1971, Grant filed a petition in the federal district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1443 seeking the removal of the criminal proceedings from the state court to the district court. On May 18, 1971, the State of North Carolina filed a Motion To Remand. The district court, without a hearing, remanded the case to the state court on May 20, 1971.
In his removal petition Grant alleges that:
Lyman Eugene Grant, Jr., was charged in the Greene County, North Carolina, Superior Court with First Degree Burglary, Armed Robbery and Kidnapping in April of 1971. On June 21, 1971, Grant filed a petition in the federal district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1443 seeking the removal of the criminal proceedings against him from the state court to the district court. On the same day the State of North Carolina filed a Motion for Remand. The district court, without a hearing, remanded the case to the state court on July 9, 1971.
In his removal petition Grant, Jr., alleges:
For the purposes of this appeal, the separate allegations contained in each removal petition must be taken as true since the order remanding each case was entered without a hearing. Cooper v. Alabama, 353 F.2d 729 (5 Cir. 1966). However, even if accepted as true, the allegations in neither petition are sufficient to justify removal of a state prosecution to a federal district court under § 1443.
The appellants are not entitled to remove their state prosecutions by virtue of subsection 2 of 28 U.S.C. § 1443, since this subsection is only available to federal officers "and to persons assisting such officers in the performance of their official duties." City of Greenwood v. Peacock, 384 U.S. 808, 815, 86 S.Ct. 1800, 1805, 16 L.Ed.2d 944 (1965). Neither appellant is a federal officer and neither contends that he was in any way assisting a federal official in the performance of his duties. Therefore, if either appellant is entitled to removal it could only be by virtue of subsection 1 of § 1443.
Subsection 1 affords a right of removal to any person who is denied or cannot enforce in the courts of a state "a right under any law, providing for the equal civil rights of citizens of the United...
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