Posted on 08/28/2018 7:52:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
California will end the cash bail system in a sweeping reform for the state. Rather than requiring defendants to pay in order to be released before trial, their release will hinge on an assessment of their risk to public safety.
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Brown signed the bill Tuesday, and the new law goes into effect Oct. 1, 2019.
"Abolishing money bail and replacing it with a risk-based system will enhance justice and safety. For too long, our system has allowed the wealthy to purchase their freedom regardless of their risk, while the poor who pose no danger languish in jail," said Assemblymember Rob Bonta, one the lawmakers who introduced the bill, in a statement.
Under the new law, a pretrial assessment would be done by either court employees or a local public agency that has been contracted to determine a defendant's risk.
That entity would assess the likelihood that the person will not appear in court or commit a new crime while released, and would make a recommendation for conditions of release. The pretrial assessment services will not release a person arrested for violent felonies.
But the ACLU in California expressed disappointment over the bill, saying "It cannot guarantee a substantial reduction in the number of Californians detained while awaiting trial, nor does it sufficiently address racial bias in pretrial decision making,"
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Funny. I don't feel any safer.
Oh, to own a moving company in the once-Golden-State.
Doesn’t the US Constitution guarantee the right to bail in at least some circumstances?
You feel any better?
Ha!
I’m the last person on their concern list, and you’re the next to last.
Detainee voter registration system. Register Democrat or you don’t bail process out.
“replacing it with a risk-based system will enhance justice and safety”
Actually, I think this makes some sense.
“..........For too long, our system has allowed the wealthy to purchase their freedom regardless of their risk, while the poor who pose no danger languish in jail,”.......
Class warfare. Jerry Brown eats it up like candy. It’s the basis of all his campaigns.
Totalitarianism.
“replacing it with a risk-based system will enhance justice and safety”
Actually, I think this makes some sense.
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The comment/quote is in fact a lie.
If there’s a risk, there’s no bail, no matter how wealthy a defendant may be.
This is simply allowing the government carte Blanche to decide whom they deem worthy of holding.
Sucks to live in Nevada, cause all these losers are heading to Vegas to avoid trial. Big winners? Bounty hunters, which will soon be on the state payroll.
Catch and Release
Exactly.
No right to trial.
Just a “preliminary hearing”
This sounds like what New Mexico came up with...and is the biggest part of the reason the Muslims training/abusing children to be shooters had such low bail, and it ended up being a signature bond. In their case they could not meet the other requirements to be released, as I understand they had no where to live is why they didn’t simply walk.
This is another lefty idea that sound good, the poor should not be in jail simply because they can’t raise bail. As with all lefty ideas though there are unintended consequences to consider.
“Abolishing money bail and replacing it with a risk-based system will enhance justice and safety.”
Isn’t the money based system based on risk? The greater the threat and the risk of flight, the higher the bail?
Maybe I am missing something here but that seems fair to me. If you skip bail you hurt the people who helped you out of jail.
Every illegal is a flight risk.
One amendment to my last comment.
This makes sense for low bail situations (maybe) where people are not flight risks. Let’s say it is an automatic $500 bail situation. If they are not a flight risk (and they have no savings), then holding them might get them fired.
I think you are correct. Thanks for the clarification. I should have realized there is more than meets the eye.
The Bail Bond lobby must be all GOP and marginalized.
We tried this in Maryland.
Two things happened: Judges remanded more accused persons to custody (questionable cases that would have drawn bail in the past became cases where the individual was held until trial - what judge wants the front page of the Washington Post announcing that a judge released someone who subsequently committed a dangerous crime?); More people failed to appear for their subsequent court date after being released.
This iwill make is a worse sh*th*le than it is, faster revolving door with crowded fed, state, county and city jails and prisons overloads. Toss em back in the streets with no accountability and they will not return especially the illegals.
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