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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by watwut on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:55AM (#34530600)
That is pretty bad example. In theory, bail should be affordable to the individual person. It is meant to be insurance that you come back for actual court date.

The outrage there is bails being set to unaffordable sizes for poor people. OP was picking out the case where bail functioned as intended.

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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by harimau777 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:39AM (#34531448)
That seems like a distinction without a difference. It still means that the rich aren't in jail in situations where the poor are.
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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by watwut on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:17AM (#34532683)
The complaint however was not about inequality. The comment which started thread made no concern about inequality or poor.

The complaint was purely about rich people avoiding jail prior sentencing due to being able to pay bail. This was called dystopian.

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