Attorney Randolph asked Judge Pfaelzer to have the new case transferred to her under the "low-number rule" (which allows related cases to be combined and heard by the judge handling the case with the lowest docket number—that is, the one assigned at the earliest date). Since the cases were related, she agreed. Nine months after I was indicted on the twenty-five counts, the smaller ones—the Raleigh charges and the supervised-release case—were finally settled. I was sentenced to twenty-two months. I had already been in custody four months longer than that. Attorney Randolph made an immediate request for a detention hearing, since I was now eligible for release on bail. The Supreme Court had held that every defendant had a right to a bail hearing.