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U.S. v. CLARK

No. 88-5079.

865 F.2d 1433 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Edward CLARK, a/k/a Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Bryan Jacobs, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie Yolanda Moore, Center for Constitutional Rights, William Moses Kunstler, New York City, Bob Warren, Garland, Tex., (Alan Gregory, Christic Institute South, Barry Nakell, Chapel Hill, N.C., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

John Stuart Bruce, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Margaret Person Currin, U.S. Atty., on brief) for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and RUSSELL, WIDENER, HALL, PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN, SPROUSE, ERVIN, CHAPMAN, WILKINSON, and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.

WILKINS, Circuit Judge:

John Edward Clark, a/k/a Eddie Hatcher, and Timothy Bryan Jacobs appeal from a district court order of detention pending trial on criminal charges. We affirm.

I.

On February 1, 1988 Defendants allegedly took 21 people hostage at gunpoint in a newspaper office in Lumberton, North Carolina, in an effort to focus public attention on what they claimed was discrimination against blacks and Indians. Although they released some of...

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