Bowers v. Pennsylvania

How courts have described this case

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• affirming detention orders based on findings of risk of flight which were \adequately supported by the evidence\
• affirming detention orders based on findings of risk of flight which were “adequately supported by the evidence”
• pre-trial detention punitive and unconstitutional when imposed on grounds of defendant’s alleged “dangerousness” to the community at large
• continuance to obtain witnesses and interpreters and to interview defendants prior to magistrate’s pretrial detention hearing is proper
• broader scope of review on questions of danger to community, since those determinations involve legal interpre tations to a greater extent than in threat and flight questions
• although the 16 court was skeptical of the constitutionality of pretrial confinement for general dangerousness, it noted that detention may be validly imposed where there is evidence of witness tampering

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).