Posted on 07/10/2022 2:56:45 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
The Manhattan bodega worker held on a murder charge after an altercation with an ex-convict was freed Thursday thanks to reduced bail.
Jose Alba’s family posted the lowered sum with help from his boss following a court hearing, the New York Post reported Thursday.
The report continued:
Alba, 61, was sent to Rikers Island on a whopping $250,000 bail — half of what prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office had requested at his arraignment Saturday night, claiming the worker was a flight risk because of a planned trip to the Dominican Republic next week.
Under state law, Alba would have had to be released Thursday as prosecutors had not yet presented the second-degree murder case to the grand jury — but they could delay the presentation if he was free on bail.
In January, Bragg informed staff members his office would not seek pre-trial detention or prison sentences for crimes other than homicide and some exceptional cases, according to Breitbart News.
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I think they're both in the same category: subversives intent on destroying our country.
Well, they are enlarging the “food deserts”; it is impossible to operate businesses around ferals unless it is conducted through gaps in bulletproof glass.
He also was denied medical treatment while confined to Rikers.
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