State v. Colley

LONG, Presiding Judge.

The petitioner, Tony Ray Colley, filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus requesting that the Honorable William E. Hereford, *451Circuit Judge for the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit, lower his bail, which was set at $610,000. The petitioner was arrested on December 12, 1997, and was charged with trafficking in marijuana, distributing a controlled substance, and possessing a short-barrelled shotgun. Colley’s bail was set at $610,000— $500,000 for the trafficking charge, $100,000 for the distributing charge, and $10,000 for the shotgun charge. Colley filed a petition for a…