The court’s decision today holds – as my office has consistently advocated – that the General Assembly had the authority to eliminate cash bail and replace it with a system in which people are detained pending trial only if they pose a threat to the public or are a flight risk.

I’m not too knowledgeable about how the system works, but isn’t this kind of what we did, just now without any requirement for bail?

This seems to remove the only encouragement to return to court without an appropriate replacement.

To my knowledge, I thought bail was basically a ‘loan’ that you get back when you return to court.

No, if you skip hearings for a criminal charge they can issue a warrant for your arrest, throw your ass in jailore or less anywhere they fnd you in the States, fine you, and refuse to release you because by that point you’re by definition a flight risk.

Please try to understand something about the American criminal justice system before you comment on it.

What? Yes, you get the bail money back. Otherwise, a bail bondsman would just be throwing that 90% away every time.

Had to look it up to double check and edited my comment quite a while before you posted yours, so all I can say is, sure, I agree with you

You know I can see the timestamps, right? You posted the comment at 17:09:18, I replied at 17:20:56, you edited at 17:24:00.

Even if you edited multiple times and that’s only the most recent one, yes, in whatever time it was between me opening this post and submitting the comment, I did spend some time reading about bail, first just to make sure I wasn’t crazy, and then just out of curiosity.

Thanks for noticing I edited the comment a couple times.

Anyways, it took you fifteen minutes to check four or five results on Google? Okay.

Has anyone ever told you that you’re kind of a douche bag?