Joseph Brewer v. M. Prentiss Blackwell

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1982-11-29

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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: On a winter day in 1978, four young men working for a company engaged in pruning trees were sent to dump a load of what they thought to be tree branches at a rural landfill. Their arrest on the felony charge of contaminating water supplies, see La. Rev.Stat.Ann. 14:58 (West 1974), because the load they dumped contained garbage,…

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