Alire v. People

The petitioner thereafter sought from the state district court a reduction in the amount of his bail to $30,000, and this petition was granted by the district judge. On April 6, 1965, the petitioner was released on bond, and was immediately arrested by federal marshals and placed in the Denver County Jail. Thereafter, this Court determined that the release of the petitioner on reduced bail set by the district court was invalid, and on April 8, 1965, this Court ordered that the order granting bail to the petitioner should be annulled and held for naught and that the defendant should be immediately arrested and returned to the state penitentiary. Despite this order, the petitioner remained in the county jail as a federal prisoner until May 15, 1965 when he was transferred by the federal authorities to the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.