DE VEAU v. UNITED STATES

No. 82-1022, 82-1091.

454 A.2d 1308 (1982)

Leslie L. DE VEAU, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Dwayne E. WILSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. John HOLMES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James McComas, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Judith Hetherton, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell and Catherine R. Mack, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the motion, for appellee.

Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., for intervenor.

Before NEBEKER, MACK and PRYOR, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

In these consolidated appeals, the court must address the constitutionality of ordered pretrial detention of defendants charged with first-degree murder.1 These appellants challenge the constitutionality and the legality of the enactment of an amendment to D.C.Code 1981, § 23-1325(a), as amended, passed as emergency legislation by the Council of the District of Columbia on July 6, 1982.2...

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