The parents of Oxford High school shooter Ethan Crumbley have remained jailed for more than a year and a half, held on bonds some argue are excessive and politically motivated.
It is that way, but it shouldn’t be that way. Bail unfairly targets the poor. Filing appeals should be standard procedure when you’re deciding whether or not someone has to spend years in a prison.
Some places have done away with bail on the basis that it targets the poor, like Illinois. But this couple would be in pretrial detention even in Illinois, because their own actions made them a flight risk.
And appeals are meant to be used when you think the judge made a legal error, not when you simply don’t agree with the law.
It is that way, but it shouldn’t be that way. Bail unfairly targets the poor. Filing appeals should be standard procedure when you’re deciding whether or not someone has to spend years in a prison.
Aren’t they in CA? CA cash bail programs recently.
Guess these two fall into the exception part. Where no one is sure they will show up in court.
Some places have done away with bail on the basis that it targets the poor, like Illinois. But this couple would be in pretrial detention even in Illinois, because their own actions made them a flight risk.
And appeals are meant to be used when you think the judge made a legal error, not when you simply don’t agree with the law.