Levin v. Hall

ORDER AND MEMORANDUM

KATZ, District Judge.

AND NOW, this 13th day of November, 1996, after a hearing, it is hereby ORDERED that the Emergency Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus is DENIED.

Given the broad discretion Pennsylvania law affords the trial judge to deny bail after conviction of this offense, and given the well-settled proposition that there is no absolute federal constitutional right to bail pending an appeal, a constitutional liberty interest in bail can arise only if bail has been denied arbitrarily or unreasonably.1 In order to demonstrate such an arbitrary or unreasonable…