UNITED STATES of America, Appellant,
v.
Coltrane CHIMURENGA, a/k/a "Randolph Simms", a/k/a "Rashid Pendergrass", a/k/a "Lionel Jean-Baptiste", a/k/a "John Thomas", a/k/a "Macio McAdams", Defendant-Appellee.
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Argued March 15, 1985.
Decided April 10, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bart M. Schwartz, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty. for the S.D. of N.Y., Lorna G. Schofield, Kenneth Roth, Stacey J. Moritz, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for appellant.
Irving Cohen, New York City (Stevens, Hinds & White, P.C., Lennox S. Hinds, Michele Chandler, Aaron Frishberg, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.
Haywood Burns, New York City, for amicus curiae Nat. Conference of Black Lawyers.
Barbara Dudley, New York City, for amicus curiae Nat. Lawyers Guild.
John C. Fields, New York City, for amicus curiae Nat. Conference of Black Lawyers, New York Chapter.
Jehnifer Garvey, New York City, for amicus curiae New York Chapter of the Nat. Lawyers Guild.
Arthur Kinoy, New York City, for amicus curiae Randolph Scott-McLaughlin Center for Constitutional Rights.
Phil Nash, New York City, for amicus curiae Asian American Legal Defense & Educ. Fund.
Before MESKILL and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges, and TENNEY, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from an order releasing on bail a person charged in a criminal conspiracy to commit armed robbery. It requires us to construe an important section of the Bail Reform Act, which is part of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. Without reaching the constitutional issues presented by the Act,1 we hold that the district court's conclusion that there were conditions of release that would reasonably...
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