United States Ninth Circuit

Reversing a district court judgment that it was required to abstain from hearing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the conditions of pretrial detention in state court in the case of a man with no criminal priors who had his bail set at 1.5 million dollars that was lowered to 1 million after a hearing and a summary statement about the gravity of the charges because even if abstention had been merited under Younger it should have heard a case involving a showing of bad faith, harassment, or other extraordinary circumstances that would make abstention inappropriate.

Appellate Information

• Published 2018/02/09

Judges

• THOMAS

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel