Lawyers representing the city of Calhoun appeared Thursday before a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit seeking to overturn a preliminary injunction that bars the city from detaining indigent defendants in misdemeanor or minor traffic cases for as long as a week simply because they cannot afford a cash bond.
But Calhoun’s counsel, Sam Lucas of Brinson Askew Berry, faced a barrage of questions from the panel—Circuit Judges William Pryor, Adalberto Jordan and Bobby Baldock, a Tenth Circuit senior judge—as well as pointed judicial commentary that included a liberal amount of criticism, both overt and implied.
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