“Bail practices that incarcerate indigent individuals before trial solely because of their inability to pay for their release violate the Fourteenth Amendment,” the Department of Justice said in a friend of court brief.
The filing came in the case of Maurice Walker of Calhoun, Georgia. Walker was held for six days for a pedestrian under the influence charge when he was unable to pay the $160 bail.
The federal judge agreed with the filing in January, and ordered the city to release everybody arrested on misdemeanor offenses.
Unfortunately, the DOJ’s solution of releasing all people pre-sentencing has a glaring issue; releasing criminals without bail gives them free (literally) reign to commit crimes.
Despite DOJ’s nonsensical solution, it...
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There's apparently not enough crime on the streets of America, so the Obama administration wants to subsidize it.
ReplyDeleteIf you love crime, set it free....
Deleteif it comes back....
well, set it free again, duh.
You ring, we spring at 6%.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't this put bail bondsmen out of business? Just another attack on small business. Plus all of the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteYou know, when I heard that famous speech where SFB* says "we're five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States", I thought it was just campaign rhetoric. He sure has, though.
*SFB = Shit For Brains.
I had previously thought it impossible, but that fat lying cunt Lynch actually out cankles, (H)cankles! How is that even physically possible?
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