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finding an insufficient showing that retroactive application of 18 U.S.C. § 3143 — the new, stricter standard for granting release — worked an increase in punishment, and noting that "courts are much more critical of slight increases in formal punishment than of substantial shifts in the balance of procedural advantage. . . ."
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No. 85-552.
March 24, 1986.
C.A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 764 F. 2d 1285.