A Comprehensive Analysis of the New Bail Reform Law: Understanding Who Pays and Who Doesn’t

2023-09-18 00:22:00

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wooden stake there are two police officers hospitalized, the alleged aggressors have already been arrested. Starting tomorrow a new law comes into force and we will analyze it, not the árdenas lawyer. Of the detained people, who will and who will not have to pay bail? Noel: the law approved by put into effect because the reform had to be done because people who did not commit violent crimes and were normally low-income people might not pay bail and stayed in jail waiting for service, often in Latino and African American people who saw their home as their jobs, their cars and their family, while a person who committed the same crime, a nonviolent crime, might pay bail and not have the same problem and the person who was left behind might not work to pay for his lawyer’s defense. They are people who commit violent crimes who will have to post bail and that is what the judge determines, crimes that are not violent or where people were not injured will be determined and normally there is no bail. Presenter: We know that the law establishes that people who commit serious crimes can be imprisoned on bail. What were these crimes? Noel: crimes that include armed violence, armed robbery, murder, attempted homicide, those crimes in which someone is injured or seriously injured and many times domestic violence are crimes in which bail will have to be obtained and the judge has to determine whether or not but in case of traffic, iud, non-violent case will not have to see a judge to set bail unless it is a situation that is repeated several times. presenter: one of the criticisms of this law by republicans especially and many officials in illinois county is that some serious crimes are outside this list and Therefore, these people who are considered dangerous were released. Do you think society should be concerned regarding this? Noel: not because it has been put into effect. If these things the judge has to analyze before letting people continue, even if they are not violent, if it is a person who committed several crimes or who He was on bail and commits another crime, so it looks different, but the term that bail is going to be eliminated is not exactly correct. if there was bail in certain crimes and people who have a record or commit crimes

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