United States Ex Rel. Edwin A. Goodman v. H. William Kehl, Sheriff of New York County

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• “Federal habeas corpus has been recognized to be an appropriate remedial device for bringing before a federal court challenges to state bail practices before and during a criminal proceeding after exhausting all available state remedies.”
• “How far, in light of the rather obvious thrust of the Eighth Amendment toward criminal prosecutions, these principles apply to orders for civil contempt whose purpose is not to punish but to secure obedience to a court’s processes may be a different question.”

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