Legal Opinion
Atkins v. Michigan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 2, 1981No. 80-1341PublishedCited by 194 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
The state of Michigan appeals the District Court’s grant of Atkins’ petition for a writ of habeas corpus dismissing his state-court murder indictment on grounds that the state violated his sixth amendment right to a speedy trial and violated the fourteenth amendment in denying him bail. In January 1979 Atkins was arrested on the charge of first degree murder. He was released on bond by a judge of the Recorders Court in Detroit but later was remanded to jail without bond by an examining magistrate. Judge Evelyn Cooper, the trial judge, on February 6, 1979, reinstated the…
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