Legal Opinion
Gary Fields v. Henry County, Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 10, 2012No. 11-6352PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
AMUL R. THAPAR, District Judge.
The question presented in this case is whether Henry County’s policies of automatically detaining domestic-assault defendants for 12 hours and using a bond schedule to determine their bail violate the United States Constitution. The district court held they do not. We agree and affirm.
I
On December 11, 2008, Gary Fields’s wife contacted the Sheriffs office in Henry County, Tennessee. She alleged that Fields hit and choked her. When police arrived to investigate, they found Mrs. Fields with a bloody lip, abrasions, and bruises. The next day, Officer…
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