Legal Opinion
United States v. Fleet Wallace Maull
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 9, 1985No. 85-1717PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1481JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The issue presented is whether under the Bail Reform Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C. § 3142, a district court,1 on review of a defendant’s appeal for a reduction of a magistrate’s bond order, may on its own motion call for a detention hearing and order a defendant detained pending trial. A panel of this court held that the district court is without the authority to do so. We granted rehearing en banc and we now hold that the district court has such power.* We thus affirm the order of the district court.
On May 21, 1985, Fleet Wallace Maull and six others were indicted on…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- United States v. RaddatzSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Campbell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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