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COVINGTON v. U.S.

No. 97-CO-546.

698 A.2d 1033 (1997)

Marcus COVINGTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 14, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Warnock, Washington, DC, filed a motion for summary reversal, for appellant.

Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney at the time the motion was filed, and John R. Fisher, Assistant United States Attorney, filed a motion for summary affirmance, for appellee.

Before SCHWELB and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and KERN, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

On March 27, 1997, a hearing commissioner ordered that Marcus Covington, a defendant in a misdemeanor threats case,1 be detained without bond pending trial pursuant to D.C.Code § 23-1322(b)(1)(C) (1996). That provision authorizes such "preventive" detention in cases presenting

[a] serious risk that the [defendant] will obstruct or attempt to obstruct justice, or threaten, injure, or intimidate, or...

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