[GovernmentShrinker]

I think we really need to have a national "dialogue" on the whole issue of bail bond. When an individual has clearly, in front of many witnesses, engaged in violent, threatening, illegal behavior, there is no reason whatsoever for ANY level of bond to be set. Bond is appropriate only when there is a realistic possibility that the individual in custody will ultimately be found to be neither guilty nor dangerously insane. I have a law degree, but don't remember the subject of bond EVER being covered in any class, so I'm actually not sure where the legal basis for the whole thing lies -- historic common law? state statutes? Anybody know?

[brityank]

I have a law degree, ...

Hope you didn't pay for it; if so, you were robbed.
Try the VIII Amendment.