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Bail is not a safety measure if the amount is set by what a family can scrape together by Friday. Anyone defending the current system should have to sit in the back of a bail hearing for one full list first.
Reminder to self: the bail hearing that runs over is the one that matters, so don't rush the family waiting outside. Nobody in that corridor has a second chance to spare.
Three bail hearings before lunch and every one of them comes down to who could afford the bond. For the record, that is not a justice system.
Genuine question for anyone who has sat through a bail hearing: when a judge sets money bail for someone who obviously can't pay it, what did you expect to happen? I keep hearing 'it's the process'. For the record, the process is a man in a cell for three weeks over fifty dollars.
Had a client call from the cells last night asking if he could just plead so he could go home to his kids. He could post bail in an afternoon if someone gave him a few hundred dollars. For the record, that is the whole case.