United States v. Luis Terry Wong-Alvarez

A magistrate set a pretrial detention bond for Wong-Alvarez at $500,000 personal surety (secured by property) and $350,-000 corporate surety. Wong-Alvarez filed a motion styled “Motion to Reduce Bond and/or Pre-Trial Detention Hearing.” The motion alleged that he is unable to make the bond and asked that the amount be reduced. Despite the caption the motion made no request for a pretrial detention hearing, in fact did not refer to such a hearing except to say that the government had not asked for one. The magistrate conducted a hearing and thereafter denied the motion without comment.…