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| CA Bail System Focusing On Fixing Problems |
| By seattletimes.nwsource.com |
| Published: 12/01/2010 |
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A sweeping effort intended to overhaul the state bail system in wake of last year's Lakewood police shootings has finished with a lingering debate about the largest loophole that the shooter, Maurice Clemmons, slipped through. The widespread presumption is that a defendant must pay 10 percent of the bail to be released from jail on a bail bond. But unbeknown to the judges who had set his bail, Clemmons repeatedly had to come up with far less than 10 percent in the competitive, mostly unregulated marketplace for bail bonds. A 20-member task force created this year to study and recommend bail-industry changes could not agree on whether to set a fixed bail premium, or what that rate might be. While judges, prosecutors and victims advocates have pushed for a fixed premium in order to create transparency in the bail system, defense attorneys and the task-force chair, state Sen. Adam Kline, balked, concerned it would punish the poor. Read More. |
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