Leighton v. State

James Keith Leighton (Petitioner) filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus with this court asserting that the pretrial bail set in his criminal case in the amount of 1.6 million dollars was tantamount to no bond at all and the trial court’s refusal to reduce excessive bond was an abuse of discretion. We grant the petition and order the trial court to either set a reasonable bond or detain the petitioner without bond and set forth the reasons therefor.

Petitioner was originally arrested for the offenses of attempted first degree murder (count one), shooting a missile into a structure or…