#Pretrial

The judge is holding him without bail. Next case is a violation of probation case involving a person who needs inpatient treatment. The state is asking for HWOB, citing “a
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Stop patting yourself & your racist police commissioner on the damn backs. The same cop pistol-whipped a teenager in 2014 over a bag of weed & nothing was done. Now
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Just as COVID struck, I met Lacie. A public defender in Louisiana. The *only* in East Baton Rouge assigned to represent the 12k arrested each year at bail hearings. Since
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New prison data from @ScotGovJustice https://www.gov.scot/news/supplementary-prison-population-statistics-2019-20/ and there are some real wow! stats in there 1/10 First, remand – nearly 60% held pretrial ‘depart custody directly from r
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(1/5) Some optimism from my Local Government Law students: when the feds fall short, state and local governments can step up. Local govs have not only led the effort to
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1. Mir Shakilur Rehman has been in NAB’s custody since 12 March. Like many others detained by NAB, he has been kept in solitary confinement, that too with cameras in
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This morning in Baltimore City bail reviews: defendants are now supposed to be participating via conference call, but no one is on the line they’re supposed to be on. The
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I'm sympathetic to all the arguments this piece makes about how the pandemic may undermine a host of defendants' constitutional rights. But man, this opening paragraph about how criminal cases
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Because it's confusing but important, I'd like to explain in one thread how it happened that an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature & a theoretically Democratic governor (@NYGovCuomo) just voted to lock
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Mayor Wheeler has extended the state of emergency in Portland through noon Monday. He asks members of the public to get license plates of people dressed all in black and
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I am happy to hear that you believe the points I made about the legal system and policing are valid. But the ad hominem attack doesn't really advance the important
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Like many on pretrial release (mine costed 58k bail) I have to use an automated check-in system. It says I "must answer all questions truthfully."The 4th query is "do you
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After the deployment of numerous agents from federal agencies to Portland, there have been several arrests at #antifa riots. The agents are not subject to the same hand-tying placed on
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We call on policy makers and elected officials to take immediate and dramatic steps toward ending immigration detention. Here are 5 reasons why: The current detention system is historically anomalous,
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Currently our demands center on two things:1. Releasing prisoners, especially those with compromised immune systems and the elderly (over 50). Please follow @RAPPcampaign, @WLNMP, and @ParoleIllinois among others on this
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Fearmongering from the NY Posts & Julia Marshs of the world isn’t just disdainful. It’s dangerous. Enables harsher laws, blocks smarter reforms, & here, strengthens the cynical effort to kill
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