Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system
by toomanybeersies on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:13PM
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As other people have mentioned, this is a terrible idea. I wouldn't be surprised if my brother would let me rot in jail and skip bail, obviously I wouldn't offer myself up for bail, but not everybody would be in the same situation. It would be easy for people to coerce (by threats of violence etc.) people to offer themselves as bail.
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Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system
by topmonk on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:55PM
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It would easy for people to coerce others into giving up money for bail, as well. How is this worse in that aspect?
Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system
by shimms on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:52AM
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Because in the first example all the person lost was money, in the other - their liberty. Not sure how they're at all comparable.
Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system
by topmonk on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @11:03PM
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The judge can oversee it, and if it appears anything illegal was involved, he can disallow it.
With money, this is much harder, because it's difficult to determine where money really came from.
Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system
by manigandham on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:51AM
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Would you rather give up some money or your freedom?
They are not comparable at all, and locking up an innocent person is unimaginably worse.
Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @01:16AM
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It's worse than having neither hostages nor money bail, which is what it was offered as an alternative to.