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RUBEN HARRISON, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. FRANK DYSON, ETC., ET AL., ETC., DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES, ARTHUR LEE SMITH, INTERVENOR-APPELLANT.

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff-Appellants, habitual traffic offenders who claim to be indigent, challenged certain sentencing procedures of the Dallas municipal courts as violating Tate v. Short, 1971, 401 U.S. 395, 91 S. Ct. 668, 28 L.Ed.2d 130, and Argersinger v. Hamlin, 1972, 407 U.S. 25, 92 S.Ct. 2006, 32 L.Ed.2d 530. Their objections were to the alleged automatic conversion of fines to terms in jail, and to the imposition of such jail terms without affording counsel to indigent defendants. Declaratory and injunctive relief was sought.

The complaint, insofar as it related to defendants' future conduct, was dismissed on the authority of Becker v. Thompson, 5 Cir., 1972, 459 F.2d 919. That decision has now been reversed by the Supreme Court sub nom. Steffel v. Thompson, ___ U.S. ___, 94 S.Ct. 1209, 39 L.Ed.2d 505 (1974). The judgement of the district court is vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Steffel, and for further proceedings not inconsistent therewith.

In view of our remand, we do not reach any issue arising from the dismissal on the ground of mootness of that part of the case having to do with defendants' past conduct.

Vacated and remanded with direction.

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HARRISON v. DYSON
(Apr 19, 1974)