Court Opinion

ID: 9451384
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:16:25.949753+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:42.772079
License: Public Domain

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
I dissent. Not only was cash bail the kind of bail demanded but the one hundred thousand dollars of cash demanded is in the custody of the court. In addition, the order below limits Nebbia’s movements quite restrictively,1 and indicates that Judge Sugarman is interested in insuring Nebbia’s presence to answer to the court’s calendar calls. The cases cited by the majority relate to the ability of a bondsman to produce the one bailed, to the bondsman’s financial standing in the event the one bailed is not produced and to whether the court can justly consider the bondsman a dependa*306ble ally. Here, as is very often done, the court ordered that cash be produced instead of a bondsman. Cash is dependable and seems to enjoy a reputation for financial stability. Although I agree with my colleagues that the purported appeal from Judge Sugarman’s order should be dismissed, I would refuse to grant the writ of mandamus. I can only visualize a program of harassment ahead if Judge Sugarman should decide to permit the interrogation the government requests. When a court demands that cash be produced on the barrelhead and that cash is produced, why isn’t that the end on't ?

. “ * * * Further ordered that notwithstanding the foregoing provisions [the deposit of $100,000 cash bail] defendant Jean Nebbia shall not be released from custody unless he shall first execute a personal bond, as principal, for his further appearance before this Court as required by subdivision (d) of Rule 46, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure which bond shall provide that the same shall be deemed to have been breached if:
(i) said Jean Nebbia shall, until the further order of this Court or any appellate court, depart the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York and State of New York, or
(ii) shall enter any railroad station, pier, dock, airport, bus station or other terminal, or
(iii) shall enter any embassy, legation, consulate or the United Nations, or any other building or territory not subject to the laws or under the jurisdiction of the United States of America, without permission of the Court, or
(iv) shall not notify the United States Attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau or Assistant United States Attorney William M. Tendy by telephone or telegram at the United States Court House, or at home if not otherwise available, prior to removing himself all night or for any longer period from his place of residence in New York County following his release from custody, giving the exact address within the County of New York where he shall then or thereafter be found, or
(v) shall not at all times present himself before the District Court upon such day as the District Court may order; all unless or until excused or otherwise permitted by any subsequent order of this Court; and it is
Further ordered that if defendant Jean Nebbia shall not execute his personal bond upon the aforedescribed terms, his cash deposit shall forthwith be returned to the attorneys for said defendant and his. custody and detention shall be continued; * •