equity intervention in state criminal prosecutions
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From 319 U.S. 157 - Douglas v. City of Jeannette · 1943Most cited · 1,460 citing opinions
the arrest by the federal courts of the processes of the criminal law within the states, and the determination of questions of criminal liability under state law by a federal court of equity, are to be supported only on a showing of danger of irreparable injury 'both great and immediate