Re:Abolish the Cash Bail System
by mulmen on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:55AM
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How do you reconcile this with the presumption of innocence? Is it ok to make an innocent person pay a burdensome amount until they are exonerated?
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Re:Abolish the Cash Bail System
by throwaway17_17 on Monday October 12, 2020 @05:16AM
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In a vast majority of US jurisdictions, the presumption of innocence is a ‘right’ that only exists for the defendant’s lawyer to y’all about at trial. Almost all law enforcement interaction and pre-trial court proceeding operate under an inference of ‘named defendant is more likely guilty than not’.