Thomas J. Ballou, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR BAIL .

This is an application for bail by a convicted state prisoner pending appeal from a decision of the district court denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus. The first question relates to amount, and involves, specifically, petitioner’s claim that we -should adopt the “spirit” of the Bail Reform Act of 1966, 18 U.S.C. .§§ 3146-3152. Passing the fact that the act does not, in terms, apply to collateral attacks on sentence, we note that it does not apply to state prisoners at all. We believe we should not extend its broad consideration to state…