UNITED STATES v. HAWKINS

No. 80-7140.

617 F.2d 59 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Howard "Sonny" HAWKINS, Roger E. Beckman, William D. "Bill" McCain, George Rawls, a/k/a Howard Kenith Leigh, Ned Ames, Jorge Luis Valdes, James Patrick Herman, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. David Botts, Atlanta, Ga., for Hawkins.

Walter L. Brady, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., for Beckman.

Paul Storment, Jr., Belleville, Ill., for McCain.

John R. Martin, Atlanta, Ga., for Rawls.

Al Horn, Atlanta, Ga., for Ames.

Shelby Highsmith, Miami, Fla., for Valdes.

Martin G. Weinberg, Boston, Mass., Brayton S. Dasher, Macon, Ga., for Valdes.

Donald L. Wolff, Clayton, Mo., for Herman.

Richard E. Nettum, Asst. U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, REAVLEY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


BY THE COURT:

Petitioner Valdes was denied release on bail pending appeal after conviction and moves this court to order his release on bail not to exceed $500,000.

Valdes was arrested in Panama and expelled to the United States, where he was jailed in May 1979, and a superseding indictment issued in July 1979 charging him, together with 19 others, with conspiracy to import marijuana, methaqualone and cocaine. The district court set pretrial bail at $2,000...

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