WendyDarling wrote:My Cousin who works in law enforcement recently told her Dad, my Uncle, that in the wee hours of the night, the state government enacted several new laws concerning law enforcement. She complained that the Democrat majority legislature pushed these new laws through late in the night without the attendance of many Republican legislators. Were all the representatives even notified? Doubtful. I guess when the Governor is present, state legislators can do whatever they want and its legal. So to me, a conspiracy happened between Dems and their Dem governor to push these new laws through under the cover of night, at a time when most evil occurs, at night, on the hush hush.
I don’t think my Uncle caught or understood all that his daughter told him but one thing my Uncle relayed, there will be no more bail and all criminals can only be held for 24hrs. Mass murderers get released after 24 hrs like everybody else unless they are prosecuted before the 24 hrs expire. This law goes into effect on Feb. 8, 2021. Good for the deranged to resume their terror, bad for the innocent to get ramshod through the justice system so quickly.
I haven’t researched all the particulars of these new laws yet. Several were passed on the hush hush.
are you in illinois? they eliminated cash bail. that doesn't mean that everyone gets out of jail. it means that if a person is granted bail, that they wont be stuck inside if they dont have any money. not everyone is granted bail, particularly mass murderers. cash bail discriminates against the poor. you yourself pretty much state above that you dont really know what happened, then you assert that terrible things probably happened...because....democrats.
democrats don't think that someone should sit in jail until trial if they have been granted bail by the judge, just because they are poor.
i was on a case once where after 2 years of paying tens of thousands of dollars i pled to a charge and walked right out of the courtroom. the whole matter hardly disrupted my life at all.
the case took place in district court, where serious cases go, and where as a defendant, you are usually the only person there who is not already in shackles.
a guy who could not afford bail and who was charged with a much lesser crime than me, sat for 2 years waiting to get a fair trial, trying to get public defenders to file all the motions that i was able to file with my expensive attorneys. because i had tens of thousands of dollars, i spent 30 minutes in jail after my arrest, and went on about my life and had 3 lawyers at one time all working on my case and filing every possible motion leaving no stone unturned, and eventually i walked right out of the courtroom, once i pled to a much much lesser charge....the one that this man was charged with initially.
so he sat in jail for 2 years while trying to fight his case, because he could not afford bail. and he watched me come in and plead guilty to the same crime and walk out the door because i had money.
ending cash bail would have prevented him from having to argue his case from jail.
that's all that happened. the democrats did a good thing for people who have been deemed worthy of bail by a judge, but who cannot afford the money to get out, so that those who are "innocent until proven guilty" can argue their case without having to do it from inside the jail.