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I want to ask Charlie if he has done the reporting (or read the reporting) to know if there is a bail problem in this case. I don't know. But I am very familiar with the issue of bail in the NY/NJ area. Prosecutors over charge poor men and women arrested on criminal charges. The only way to a quick resolution is to plead cases so over charging gets defendants to accept a plea deal. Locally, the NYC jail was full with poor men (most of them kids). And if you dared defend your rights, you might spend a year or more in jail. At least once case was simply dismissed because the defendent had been jailed for more time than even a conviction could yield.

NJ and NY are in the early years of bail reform. So far there is no increase in crime that can be fairly attributed to bail reform. But let's also admit that there are many horrible thing done by ex-cons as well as by folks who have never been convicted.

Life is ultimately a bitch.

So... let's get the details re the case in your home state. It is easy to look at one bad event and extrapolate unfairly.

Better than bail, we need to find a way to allow folks to be tried soon (a speedy trial).

Oh - there is also a long history of shitty police work that railroaded the poor.

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I remember the Central Park jogger case. The kids who served time were railroaded. Everyone lied. Yet if we go by Charlie (who I usually agree with) they did not deserve bail. Police work is an issue as well as the failure to deliver speedy trials.

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