Legal Opinion
United States v. Emerson Molt
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 1985No. 85-1085PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Emerson Molt has asked us to reconsider our refusal to grant him bail under Fed.R. App.P. 9(b) pending his appeal to this court from his conviction and eight-year prison sentence for drug crimes (the district court having refused to grant him bail pending appeal). Although we adhere to our decision, we have thought it best to publish our reasons for doing so because the main issue he raises — the constitutionality of applying the standard for bail in the recently enacted federal criminal code to persons convicted of crimes committed before October 12, 1984, when the new…
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