United States v. Roosevelt Daniels

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Daniels is in custody on a charge of distributing large quantities of controlled drugs (principally cocaine), in an operation that included bribing police officers to obtain protection. At Daniels’s initial appearance before the magistrate, the government moved for an order of pretrial detention under 18 U.S.C. § 3142(f)(1)(C). The magistrate held a timely hearing, at which an agent of the FBI testified about the crime for which Daniels had been arrested. The magistrate found that there was probable cause to believe that Daniels had committed the drug offenses…