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To: Albion Wilde

He’s on bail, house arrest. People need to stop being so dramatic. Bail happens, even in murder trials.


14 posted on 07/13/2014 10:43:54 AM PDT by discostu (Villains always blink their eyes.)
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To: discostu; Albion Wilde

The purpose of bail is to insure the accused’s appearance at trial; and rarely, (supposedly, but more and more often not) denial to protect the public from a particular and imminent menace.

I see a very disturbing trend in wanting to use it as pretrial punishment, as well as a steady escalation of what constitutes the Constitutionally mandated “reasonable bail”.

It reinforces the erosion of the “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” mandated presumption of innocence within the legal system: not to be confused with personal opinions of members of the public, which carry no legal weight or obligation.


34 posted on 07/13/2014 11:03:15 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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