Title: State v. Gardner

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

State v. Gardner  (97-520); 167 Vt. 600; 709 A.2d 600

[Filed 15-Jan-1998]

                                 ENTRY ORDER

                       SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 97-520

                             JANUARY TERM, 1998

State of Vermont                }     APPEALED FROM:
                                }
                                }
     v.                         }     District Court of Vermont,
                                }     Unit No. 3, Franklin Circuit
Arnold Richard Gardner          }
                                }     DOCKET NO. 1096-9-97 Frcr

       In the above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:

       Defendant Arnold Gardner appeals a Franklin District Court order that
  he be held without bail.  Defendant is charged with (1) driving under the
  influence, third offense, under 23 V.S.A. § 1210(d); and (2) being a
  "habitual criminal" under 13 V.S.A. § 11, a charge punishable by life
  imprisonment.  The district court granted the State's motion to hold
  defendant without bail under 13 V.S.A. § 7553 and Vt. Const. ch. II, § 40
  (person charged with offense punishable by life imprisonment may be held
  without bail when the evidence of guilt is great).  We review the district
  court's decision under V.R.A.P. 9(b)(2) and affirm.

       There is no constitutional right to bail for offenses punishable by
  life imprisonment where the evidence of guilt is great.  See State v.
  Blackmer, 160 Vt. 451, 453-54,