United States v. Stacey C. Koon, United States of America v. Laurence M. Powell

In their request for bail pending appeal, Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell have shown only ordinary reasons relating to flight risk, danger to the community and issues on appeal; they have not in addition shown, as the Mandatory Detention Act requires, “exceptional reasons” which make detention in their case inappropriate. Congress has declared that all persons who are found guilty of crimes of violence must be detained — even though they individually pose no risk of flight or danger to the community and despite the fact that they may raise substantial issues on appeal — unless they clearly…