From a financial perspective, hiring a bail bondsman may seem like a losing perspective. After all, paying cash bail means the full amount will be refunded if a defendant is found not guilty, and most of it will be refunded even if there is a guilty verdict. Paying a...
Every moment of the arrest process is scary, especially when someone has never been in legal trouble before and cannot imagine how to deal with the situation. The police officers arrive, put handcuffs on the person accused of a crime, and begins to say the sentence...
When people hear about advocacy for bail reform, the focus is generally on the large numbers of defendants held in jail before trial for nonviolent crimes. Yet men and women who have been charged with a violent crime also may be incarcerated before trial only because...