Bateman v. Arizona

Mr. Justice Rehnquist, Circuit Justice.

Applicant has filed a motion denominated an “Application for Bail Pending Certiorari or in the Alternative Application for Stay of Mandate of the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona.” Such an applicant — who, in effect, seeks to have a single Justice of this Court stay what the state-court system has concluded should not be stayed — bears a heavy burden of demonstrating that he meets the traditional tests which a Circuit Justice must consider in passing on an application of this sort. Because of the serious questions going to applicant's standing to…