Editorial: Trump should not have to pay bail
LA TimesFormer President Trump, shown Aug. 3 after pleading not guilty in a Washington, D.C., courtroom on federal conspiracy charges, is expected to be booked Thursday in Atlanta on racketeering and other counts related to an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Opinion Editorial: California continues to show the nation the absurdity and unfairness of money bail Bail was set at a stunning $25 million for Naason Joaquin Garcia after he was arrested last month at Los Angeles International Airport on charges of human trafficking and forcing children to perform sex acts. Opinion Editorial: Bail’s purpose is freedom, not jail Setting bail so high that the defendant can’t pay it undermines the criminal justice system. For example, consider Lashawn Thompson, who was arrested last year for allegedly spitting on an officer and was sent to Fulton County jail because he could not afford his $2,500 bail for misdemeanor battery, or 10% of that to pay a bail agent who would promise to cover the full amount. Thompson, Stinson and Hawkins were among hundreds of “pretrial” jail inmates in Fulton County — people who have not been convicted and who are not supposed to be punished, but merely held pending trial or other proceedings because they can’t pay bail.
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Editorial: L.A. County cities should stop fighting the end of cash bail. It’s working
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Editorial: L.A. court’s refreshing candor on money bail: It doesn’t make us safer
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Editorial: Leaders aren’t leading on L.A. bail reform
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Editorial: Chief Moore and other bail reform critics are wrong. Cash bail should not be a form of punishment
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Opinion: As judges, we’ve made thousands of bail decisions. Here’s the truth about detention and public safety
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Editorial: L.A.’s bail reform is an improvement, but falls short of what Illinois has done
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Editorial: 50 Cent and prosecutors are wrong about cash bail. L.A. courts get it right
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Editorial: Court brings back sanity, and the Constitution, in Los Angeles bail ruling
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Editorial: Presumed guilty! The toxic cost of money bail
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Editorial: California still violates the Constitution on bail
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California stalls scaled down bail reform after year’s delay
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Editorial: Bail’s purpose is freedom, not jail
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Editorial: ‘Zero bail’ and release from jail are not the same thing
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Editorial: Yes, there are problems with Prop. 47 and $0 bail. Just not what you think
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Latest California bail reform effort dies for this year
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Editorial: Court takes a giant step on bail, but more work is needed
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California’s top court ends cash bail for some defendants who can’t afford it
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Judge hikes bail for La Luz del Mundo leader to $90 million
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Editorial: No, criminals aren’t rampaging across California because of our zero-dollar bail policy
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Editorial: A $0 bail for Californians accused of nonviolent crimes? That’s exactly the right amount
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Editorial: The welcome but glacial dismantling of California’s bail system
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US judge orders ex-Peruvian president released on bail
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California’s historic overhaul of cash bail is now on hold, pending a 2020 referendum
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Proposal to radically overhaul California’s bail system advances in Legislature
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Editorial: Money bail punishes the poor and makes a mockery of California’s justice system
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California’s chief justice calls for end to cash bail
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Judicial group urges end to cash bail for criminal defendants
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California lawmakers want to reform a bail system they say ‘punishes the poor for being poor’
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Judge dismisses some charges and reduces bail in $150-million fraud ring case
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