United States v. Stein

HERLANDS, District Judge.

This is a motion by defendant Stein to have his bail reduced from $50,000 to $1,000.

Simultaneously with this motion, defendant Stein applied for a writ of habeas corpus to reduce his bail in the sum of $75,000, pending appeal, as fixed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In accordance with defendant’s request, we have read and considered defendant’s affidavit in the habeas corpus proceeding, as if it were part of the application at bar.

This defendant, together with twenty co-defendants, was indicted in the Southern District of New York on June 19, 1951 and charged…