Legal Opinion
Bolante v. Keisler
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 31, 2007No. 07-2550PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner is being held in custody by the immigration authorities pending this court’s review of the denial by the Board of Immigration Appeals of his application for asylum and the Board’s resulting order of removal. He has been in custody since July 2, 2006, and he asks us to order him released on bail. We have no authority to do so.
The right not to be subjected to excessive bail is conferred by the Eighth Amendment and implemented, so far as federal criminal defendants are concerned, in the Bail Reform Act. 18 U.S.C. § 3142; see United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S.…
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