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United States v. Harris 106 U.S. 629 (1883) sometimes referred to as the Ku Klux Case was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to penalize crimes such as assault and murder. It declared that the local governments have the power to penalize these crimes.In the specific case four men were removed from a Crockett County Tennessee jail by a group led by Sheriff R. G. Harris and 19 others.

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