Legal Opinion
Speight v. Whiddon
District Court, M.D. Georgia
Decided November 7, 1980No. Civ. 80-93-ALBPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
OWENS, District Judge.
The petitioner, unable in the state courts to secure an order setting an appeal bond pending disposition of her state appellate remedies, moves the court to grant her bail. Petitioner is presently incarcerated in the Turner County jail and has served approximately two months of her three year sentence for possession of more than one ounce of marijuana in violation of Ga.Code Ann. § 79A-811(j).
Following petitioner’s conviction and sentencing on September 10, 1980, the trial court denied petitioner’s request for an appeal bond to be set on September 12, 1980. A timely…
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