State v. Falzo

¶ 1. Defendant appeals the district court’s July 23, 2009 decision to hold him without bail pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 7553, which states that a “person charged with an offense punishable by life imprisonment when the evidence of guilt is great may be held without bail.” We affirm.

¶ 2. The underlying facts of this case are recounted in this Court’s earlier deci sion regarding defendant’s appeal of a previous hold-without-bail determination. State v. Falzo, 2009 VT 22, 185 Vt. 616, 969 A.2d 694 (mem.). In our earlier decision, we affirmed the district court’s ruling that the State had met its…