· 1/7/1983
Prasan Meechaicum v. James H. Fountain, Sheriff of Reno County, Kansas and J. Stanley Hill, District Judge, 27th Judicial District
Citations
- 696 F.2d 790
- 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 27752
How courts have described this case
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- “[T]he Eighth Amendment’s excessive bail provision is integral to our concept of ordered liberty and therefore binding upon the States under the Fourteenth Amendment.”
- “[T]he Eighth Amendment’s excessive bail provision is integral to our concept of ordered liberty and therefore binding upon the States under the Fourteenth Amendment.”
- \[T]he right of an accused to freedom pending trial is inherent in the concept of a liberty interest protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.\
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Judges: Per Curiam, Pickett, Seth, Seymour
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