Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Fink v. Heyd
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided July 30, 1968No. Misc. 1332PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUBIN, District Judge.
The petitioner asserts that there is a federal constitutional right to bail during the period pending appeal from his conviction for a State criminal offense. Finding no such right, I deny the application for habeas corpus.
On May 13, 1968, the applicant, Stephen Fink, was convicted of selling marijuana to a person over the age of 21 in violation of a Louisiana criminal statute, LSA-R.S. 40:962. Fink was only 19 when the offense was committed, and he had no prior criminal record. He was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison at hard labor in the Louisiana State…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Ni Pilkinton v. The Circuit Court of Howell County, MissouriCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1963
- Wansley v. WilkersonDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1967
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3Cited by29 opinions
- United States v. Benjamin J. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- Floyd Bloss v. People of the State of Michigan, James K. Miller and Ronald ParsonsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1970
- Austin Troy Simon v. Albert Woodson, Sheriff of Lamar County, TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- United States Ex Rel. Keating v. BensingerDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1971
- United States Ex Rel. Stephen Fink v. Louis Heyd, Criminal Sheriff of the Parish of OrleansCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
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