United States v. Stanton Miller and Robert Miller

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a “substantial question” is one “which has not been decided by controlling precedent, or which is fairly doubtful”
• observing that the district court is in a better position to evaluate whether an issue is substantial
• hold- ing that change in bail standards was not unconstitutional, since change was merely procedural and did not alter any substantive right
• a favorable appeal must result in reversal or order for a new trial on all counts upon which imprisonment has been imposed
• “the phrase ‘likely to result in reversal or an order for a new trial’ cannot reasonably be construed to require the district court to predict the probability of reversal”
• an ALJ cannot “reach a conclusion first, and then attempt to justify it 1 by ignoring competent evidence in the record that suggests an opposite result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).