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To: CedarDave

I agree that everyone deserves a speedy trial but surety bonds are placed on people who are deemed to be a flight risk and the higher the risk, the higher the bond. Bonds are not meant to be affordable for the sake of letting someone out of jail.


4 posted on 06/12/2015 8:57:23 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"Bonds are not meant to be affordable for the sake of letting someone out of jail."

Not exactly.

Specifically bonds are not meant as a means of keeping someone IN jail. They are meant to insure an appearance in court and nothing more because at that point the accused is still assumed innocent.

The Waco biker roundup is a text book example of illegally and unconstitutionally using bond to imprison someone without a trial.

13 posted on 06/12/2015 10:20:51 AM PDT by precisionshootist (D)
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