UNITED STATES EX REL. FINK v. HEYD

Misc. No. 1332.

287 F.Supp. 716 (1968)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Stephen FINK, Petitioner, v. Louis HEYD, Criminal Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

July 30, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross T. Scaccia, New Orleans, La., for petitioner.

Numa Bertel, Jr., New Orleans, La., for respondent.


RUBIN, District Judge.

The petitioner asserts that there is a federal constitutional right to bail during the period pending appeal from his conviction for a State criminal offense. Finding no such right, I deny the application for habeas corpus.

On May 13, 1968, the applicant, Stephen Fink, was convicted of selling marijuana to a person over the age of 21 in violation of a Louisiana criminal statute, LSA-R.S. 40:962. Fink was only 19 when the offense was...

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