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Illinois does it right. No bail. Either you are released pending trial, or you see a judge where you may be held pending trial.
New York State has bail. Why this guy was released without even having to post bail is beyond me.
Bail is an abhorrent, very American, concept
Indeed, it favours rich and punishes poor people
In Brazil it use to be like bail system, but instead of paying you needed a college degree. It was stuck down like 4 years ago because the Supreme Court found it unconstitutional.
Recent bail reform means NY doesn't anymore in most minor cases. You're either freed til trial or not depending on judgment of flight and violence risk. Big republican talking point because a lot of R judges have just been releasing violent repeat offenders to stir the pot. So Dems are trying to reform the reform to be a bit more feasible and Republicans want to return to previous where even petty theft could have you locked up for years waiting for trial if you couldn't make bail.
This really confirms that the judiciary is just another branch of the political parties.
Always has been.
"Minor" cases, indeed.
Do you know the details of this particular case? Or are you just basing this on a headline you read?
In this climate of disappearing people who disagree with you, and targeting political opponents, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with locking everyone up without due process.
Not saying it's the case, at all, but if you wanted to take someone down, planting cp on their computer is a sure fire way to do it. Particularly because of (understandable) knee jerk reactions like yours.
Woooosh. Yes, they're basing their dad joke on the headline and it's enought for the joke to work well.
Who is upvoting this shit?
The comment doesn't make much sense so people upvote in confusion
I've recently been finding that lemmy isn't much better than reddit.
It almost feels like a concerted effort to make this website shitty by injecting Trump defenders and fake leftists. Shit is fucking weird.