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Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts) Tue Aug 28, 2018, 05:22 PM Aug 2018

Bill to make California first state to end bail before trial

Source: Associated Press

Sophia Bollag, Associated Press
Updated 2:44 pm CDT, Tuesday, August 28, 2018

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first state to eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The bill will replace bail with a risk-assessment system, although it's still unclear how the system will work. It will take effect in October 2019.

Brown's signature gives the state's Judicial Council broad authority to reshape pretrial detention policies.

Each county will use the council's framework as a basis to set its own procedures for deciding whom to release before trial, potentially creating a patchwork system based on where a suspect lives.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Bill-to-make-California-first-state-to-end-bail-13188634.php

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Bill to make California first state to end bail before trial (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP

This could be a quantum leap forward PatSeg Aug 2018 #1

This is great news. Mr.Bill Aug 2018 #2

PatSeg

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1. This could be a quantum leap forward

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Tue Aug 28, 2018, 05:28 PM

Aug 2018

for the judiciary system. The bail system is archaic and so discriminatory against the poor.

Mr.Bill

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2. This is great news.

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Tue Aug 28, 2018, 05:41 PM

Aug 2018

We have a County Supervisor where I live who is a POS republican thug. He actually told a citizen in public at a Board of Supervisors meeting that if he doesn't like how they run the county he should go back to Mexico where he came from. The guy was a citizen who was born here.

What does this have to do with the thread topic? This Supervisor is a Bail Bondsman. He's never earned an honest dollar in his life. When you get arrested here and they let you make your one phone call, there's no phone book there, just an ad for his bail agency on the wall next to the phone. Hopefully this law can put him and his kind out of business.

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