Detention after release order
Ohio, ex rel. Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. Niemi
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Malik Allah-U-Akbar asks the Supreme Court to review his continued detention, arguing that Ohio has not released him despite a court order for unconditional release and that his detention rests on a judgment the court wiped out and an indictment (formal criminal charge) missing required elements.
- Who it affects
- Allah-U-Akbar's constitutional claims about his detention received no decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.

What it's about
He also claims the detention violates protections against double jeopardy and the presumption of innocence regarding a dismissed aggravated-robbery charge.
Allah-U-Akbar says Ohio has not released him despite a court order for unconditional release and continues to detain him under a judgment he says a court wiped out.
His petition raised several constitutional objections, including claims about a release order, the indictment, bail and a dismissed aggravated-robbery charge.
Question presented
1. Whether the Petitioner is detained in violation of the Constitution, where unconditional release upon an unconditional writ of habeas corpus has been ordered yet the state has denied such release? 2. Whether the Petitioner's continued detention violates due process where a vacated judgment is void ab initio, and the court fails to give legal effect to its own vacat.ui\? 3. Whether the Petitioner is detained in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Double Jeopardy and Process Clauses when denied the presumption of innocence of the underlying predicate "aggravated robbery," dismissed, June 9, 1998? 4. Whether detention violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments where the Constitution requires indictment by a grand jury, and the purported indictment fails to allege each and every element Necessary to constitute the purported offense where state law holds this fails to confer jurisdiction but consistently refuses to apply such holding? 5. Whether arrest, warrant, and detention without probable cause violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, rendering detention unlawful? 6. Whether a petitioner is unlawfully detained and entitled to dismissal of the indictment and immediate release where His Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to a Speedy Trial and Due Process has been violated? 7. Whether complete denial of bail violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, rendering detention unconstitutional? 8. Whether denial of a preliminary hearing violates Due Process and Equal Protection of the Laws, resulting in unlawful detention?
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