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It would matter if they were willing to lose the money to avoid a trial, for starters.

by hanoz 4y ago

bandyaboot 4y ago
Fair point. Any idea if judges typically consider such things in this kind of case?
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  Bonds agencies do. The term is "flight risk". <https://www.allcitybailbonds.com/2015/10/what-makes-someone-a-flight-risk https://www.allcitybailbonds.com/2015/10/what-makes-someone-...> A 2007 NYT article describes particulars within the context of one case. In part: To hear Ms. Weinstock tell it, Ms. Chanla was the ultimate flight risk. She was foreign born, and lacked ties to New York. She swapped identities like a chameleon, using at least two different names, the prosecutor said. A week ago, detectives with a New York arrest warrant knocked on the door of “her Los Angeles home,” the prosecutor said, and found her parents, who “claimed they had no way of getting in touch with her.” <https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/nyregion/04bail.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/nyregion/04bail.html> SBF is an American citizen with two parents in high-reputation, reasonably high-profile professional positions (at Stanford University), by contrast. (I've no opinion one way or the other whether or not he should be free on bail.)
  - bandyaboot 4y ago
    The more thorny scenario I’m wondering about is when there’s a person A who is attempting to post bail for person B, but there’s reason to suspect person A may be implicated in the same crime or a related crime as person B. Person A may very well be willing to lose that money with the expectation that person B flees and doesn’t implicate them.
    - dredmorbius 4y ago
      That could be, though what value SBF might have to someone that's worth giving up $250 Large Large (and SBF's parents) raises any number of interesting speculations.
ars 4y ago
There would still be a trial, even if he's not there.
landemva 4y ago
They won't lose the money if SBF dies before court. Maybe SBF would be safer in MCC? https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/nym https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/nym

It would matter if they were willing to lose the money to avoid a trial, for starters.

by hanoz 4y ago

It would matter if they were willing to lose the money to avoid a trial, for starters.

bandyaboot 4y ago

Fair point. Any idea if judges typically consider such things in this kind of case?

dredmorbius 4y ago
Bonds agencies do. The term is "flight risk". <https://www.allcitybailbonds.com/2015/10/what-makes-someone-a-flight-risk https://www.allcitybailbonds.com/2015/10/what-makes-someone-...> A 2007 NYT article describes particulars within the context of one case. In part: To hear Ms. Weinstock tell it, Ms. Chanla was the ultimate flight risk. She was foreign born, and lacked ties to New York. She swapped identities like a chameleon, using at least two different names, the prosecutor said. A week ago, detectives with a New York arrest warrant knocked on the door of “her Los Angeles home,” the prosecutor said, and found her parents, who “claimed they had no way of getting in touch with her.” <https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/nyregion/04bail.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/nyregion/04bail.html> SBF is an American citizen with two parents in high-reputation, reasonably high-profile professional positions (at Stanford University), by contrast. (I've no opinion one way or the other whether or not he should be free on bail.)
- bandyaboot 4y ago
  The more thorny scenario I’m wondering about is when there’s a person A who is attempting to post bail for person B, but there’s reason to suspect person A may be implicated in the same crime or a related crime as person B. Person A may very well be willing to lose that money with the expectation that person B flees and doesn’t implicate them.
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    That could be, though what value SBF might have to someone that's worth giving up $250 Large Large (and SBF's parents) raises any number of interesting speculations.

ars 4y ago

There would still be a trial, even if he's not there.

landemva 4y ago

They won't lose the money if SBF dies before court. Maybe SBF would be safer in MCC? https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/nym https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/nym