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Banning setting excessive bail is literally in the constitution. We should abide by that.
by jdlyga 8y ago
Banning setting excessive bail is literally in the constitution. We should abide by that.
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoUnfortunately, many parts of the constitution, including this one, have been re-interpreted into near irrelevance by courts. Excessive bail = bail larger than that which is typically required which means that that whatever bail is typically required is by definition not excessive. A more reasonable interpretation would be any bail larger than the amount necessary to achieve the purpose that bail is supposed to serve, which experiments by places like DC have shown for many cases to be any bail larger than zero.