Anyone want to understand the failings of money bail? Look no further: strong evidence of a white shooter motivated by racial bias committing a double murder with an assault rifle. But wealth sets him free.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/20/kyle-rittenhouse-accused-kenosha-shooter-released-2-million-bail/6363593002/ …
Wealth (of others) did set Rittenhouse free, so that statement was accurate. Glad we agree that politics and wealth should not tip the scales of justice. Unfortunately, in our cash bail system, wealth too often does.
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Bail is not set to prevent bailing out the defendant, but to reduce injustice to presumably innocent people. Creating the possibility of bailing out the defendant was the point of setting bail. If the bail is set wrong, Boudin must go after the judge, not after the defendant.
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Another genuine question: How does a judge set a fair bail when defendants have access to unknown sums of other people’s money because they’re a political hero?
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