To: GovernmentShrinker
I have a law degree, ... Hope you didn't pay for it; if so, you were robbed.
Try the VIII Amendment.
29 posted on
01/07/2003 7:12:10 PM PST by
brityank
To: brityank
"Excessive bail shall not be required" doesn't begin to address the question of when bail of any amount must be an option for the accused. I read it as meaning that when bail is set at all, it may not be set at levels that only the rich could come up with -- not as requiring bail setting as a matter of course. Obviously we have many cases where bail is denied completely on the basis that the accused is a "flight risk", even if the crime was non-violent (e.g. financial crime); it is also frequently denied for very violent criminals (but then again it often ISN'T). So I don't think the 8th Amendment accounts for the widespread practice of setting bail (often very low, as in this case) for people who are obviously guilty or dangerously insane.
To: brityank
Well, since this guy made terroristic threats and we are in a so-called declared war on terror, I would say he waived his Constitutional rights when he said that "all Americans will die."
And if he was a foreign national, green card or not, he never had any Constitutional protections anyway.
No bail for terrorists!
31 posted on
01/07/2003 7:41:05 PM PST by
TaZ
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