Court Opinion

ID: 5772982
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:35:39.628052+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:41:49.196568
License: Public Domain

In a proceeding treated as in the nature of habeas corpus, relator appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, entered December 23, 1969, as reduced his bail from $150,000 to $100,000. Judgment modified, on the law and the facts, by further reducing the bail to $20,000. As so modified, judgment affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs. In our opinion, the amount of the bail, as reduced by the Special Term, is excessive to the extent indicated by the further reduction directed herein. 'Christ, Acting P. J., Rabin, Martuseello, Kleinfeld and Benjamin, JJ., concur.