02-25-2021, 01:20 PM
(02-25-2021, 01:15 PM)Au165 Wrote: It should be very difficult to take someone's freedom before they have been convicted. The ability to take someone's freedom though should not be based on a person's ability to pay an arbitrary amount of money.
Then base it on what? The seriousness of the crime, correct? As I have already pointed out, a prohibitively high bail acts the same as a remanding order. You only get prohibitively high bail for very serious crimes. So, based on your very criteria eliminating cash bail should mean that those cases in which the bail would have been prohibitively high, i.e. essentially the same a remanding order, should be replaced by an actual remanding order.
