MESSENGER
Albert Ramirez Bail Bonds updated their business hours.
Led by the industry’s giants, such as Aladdin Bail Bonds, it is spending several million dollars to collect the 365,880 registered voter signatures required to place a repeal referendum on the 2020 ballot.
There’s virtually no doubt that the referendum will qualify, automatically suspending the new law until voters decide its fate.
CALMATTERS.ORG
War over bail bonds has only just begun | CALmatters
First bail bond was written on clay tablets from ca. 2750 BC in what is modern day Iraq.
SCHOLARSHIP.LAW.CORNELL.EDU
scholarship.law.cornell.edu
Assemblyman Bonta and Senator Hertzberg want to abridge defendants right to bail and replace it with unconstitutional risk assessment algorithms. They violate due process because their code is secret. Bail is transparent.
ABAJOURNAL.COM
Risk-assessment algorithms challenged in bail, sentencing and parole decisions
While several states are considering various bail reforms, some advocates have argued that “any bail practices that result in incarceration based on poverty violate the Fourteenth Amendment.” The text and history of the Eighth Amendment, as well as U.S. Supreme Court precedent, do not support that argument.
HERITAGE.ORG
www.heritage.org
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón has asked the California Supreme Court to review a landmark lower-court ruling that prohibits authorities from holding criminal defendants in jail solely because they can’t afford to pay bail to get out.
SFCHRONICLE.COM
San Francisco DA urges California Supreme Court to review bail ruling