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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
I'll never get the bail system. I saw a story earlier this week of a young man wrongly accused of trying to sell a stolen Xbox & he spent 2 months in jail before they dropped the charges.
And this millionaire gets to post bail of just $75,000 for this kind of violent act? |
I'm all for eliminating bail altogether. In a situation like this, if you think Porter is a flight risk or he'll retaliate against the victim, you take that under consideration as to whether you let him out at all (plus there are other things you can do besides cash bail, such as ankle monitoring). In the case of the guy above, the flight risk is the issue, not some precedent that says that in cases like that you assign him $10K bail or whatever.
In some cases it probably means people who were otherwise going to pay their way out stay in but honestly it probably means more people released while our turrible-slow legal system does its thing.