Remember, innocent until proven guilty.
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That pesky Constitution!
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You can be held without bail prior to your trial date and still presumed innocentā¦ try again.
The part that fails is you canāt get the right to a speedy trial anymore because courts are bogged down prosecuting a bunch of BSā¦
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Duke Lacrosse team
Central Park 5
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But you canāt be held without bail simply because of the type of charges.
What stuff are you referring to exactly bogging
the criminal courts down ?
War on drugs to startā¦
You can be presumed a flight risk due to the charges you faceā¦
But a presumption isnāt enough to issue a blanket decree that people charged with certain crimes arenāt entitled to bail. And every presumption is rebuttable.
No bail will always be the exception for every crime, with the limited exception of capital offenses and a few others (repeat felonies, felony while on bail, etc.)
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Can yāall show me where in the constitution it says youāre entitled to bail or the supreme court ruling that sets precedent that you are entitled to bail before your trialā¦?
From what I can tell itās the us constitution 8th amendment that mandates no excessive bail shall be setā¦ soā¦ I stand corrected.
It also says no excessive fine shall be imposedbut I know courts break thatā¦ I can think of one case recently in NYC that had an extremely excessive fineā¦
Hey @uhlaw97 how do judges curtail the 8th amendment to set no bailā¦?
Judges will sometimes revoke a personās bond/bail IF they violate the conditions of their initial bail/bond.
Anything āexcessiveā is up to the courtās discretion and up for appeal (and the case youāre discussing is going through that currently). When there is a lot of precedence on something (like bail), Iād guess itās a lot easier to gauge that mark.
Iām sure there have been plenty of cases of excessive bail being overturned too.
I donāt know Iād call that BS. Iād have to defer to legal experts here what
is ābogging downā the criminal court system and how long it takes to prepare
a capital case. Iām sure getting a court date set is one piece of it, but it probably
takes time to do investigations and defense needs time to prepare for a case too.
About how often does that happen generally speaking ? 1%, 10%, ā¦or less then 1% of the time.
Nonsense
School is better than ever and still improving
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There were 16 reported thefts in the Fertitta Center last night. It got so dagerous that some Kansas fans may be too afraid to come back
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Itās fairly common.
A person might be arrested for dope, post a bond, and then, only weeks later while out of jail, get picked up for domestic violence, shoplifting, etc and get their bond revoked.