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had approved pretrial detention in cases where it provided "needed protection" against "those defendants found to constitute a danger to the community."
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on July 10, 1981. He took inactive senior status in the summer of 1993. His service terminated on
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from 1948 to 1953 as a partner of
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In 1986, Timbers dissented from the court's 2-1 decision (the majority being written by Judge
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William H. Timbers, 79, Judge on Federal Court of Appeals
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as an unconstitutional infringement of the right to
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