Keaton v. Marsh

OPINION OF THE COURT ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY RELIEF IN THE NATURE OF A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

GRAVELLE, Senior Judge:

This petition involves the lawfulness of the petitioner’s pretrial confinement at Fort Lewis, Washington, and the propriety of another judicial official overruling the decision of the military magistrate to release the petitioner from confinement.

On 8 December 1995, counsel for Specialist Shaman D. Keaton filed with this court a Petition for Extraordinary Relief in the Nature of a Writ of Habeas Corpus. That same day, this court ordered that the government show cause why…