Court Opinion

ID: 9447364
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:32:58.677668+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:00.396954
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FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge
(concurring, as to the appeal from the second order).
In Carroll v. United States, 1957, 354 U.S. 394, 403, 77 S.Ct. 1332, 1338, 1 L.Ed.2d 1442, the Supreme Court characterized Stack v. Boyle, 1951, 342 U.S. 1, 6, 72 S.Ct. 1, as “The only decision of this Court applying to a criminal case the reasoning of Cohen v. Beneficial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 [69 S.Ct. 1221, 93 L.Ed. 1528].” I take the decision and the discussion in Carroll to indicate that the Courts of Appeals are not to be astute to extend Stack v. Boyle. The opinion in that case shows that the rule of appealability there announced was not intended to include those applications for reduction of bail which “merely invoke the discretion of the District Court setting bail within a zone of reasonableness” ; it related only to such applications as “challenged the bail as violating statutory and constitutional standards, which, in consequence, the District Court would have “no discretion to refuse.” Here the application was addressed to the discretion of the district judge. It required a weighing of Foster’s interest in obtaining medical care abroad which was alleged to be beyond his means at home, against the government’s interest, great or small as this here may be, in having him amenable to process. Foster has no constitutional right to travel to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia; in the very decision on which he relies the Court emphasized, “We must remember that we are dealing here with citizens who have neither been accused of crimes nor found guilty.” Kent v. Dulles, 1958, 357 U.S. 116, 130, 78 S.Ct. 1113, 1120, 2 L.Ed.2d 1204.
I would therefore dismiss the appeal from Judge Edelstein’s order for want of appellate jurisdiction. If we have jurisdiction as the majority believes, I would join for affirmance.