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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone clarify....arrestees for violent offenses are just not released, right?

They're at least making a distinction between 'breaking into cars' and 'caught with some meth' versus 'rapes on the WOD trail' or armed robbery, right?

right?[/quote]

The ignorance about our own justice system is astonishing.  Eliminating cash bail doesn't mean everyone gets released pretrial.  As someone noted, the federal system doesn't have cash bail, and people who are considered dangerous to the community are held pending trial.  It just means that people who are not considered dangerous to others don't sit in jail for the sole reason that they can't pay bail.[/quote]

this, bail is meant to guarantee your appearance in court and helps to mitigate the risk of flight. I.e. if you don't show up the bail is forfeit. This is totally different from detention based on a danger to society. In practice, the inability to pay bail gives prosecutors leverage over poor defendants sitting in jail because the can't afford bail to plead guilty because that is often less jail time than pre-trial detention. [/quote]

Any stats on releases during covid and pre covid of persons who had plea deals for lesser charges?

[b]Fairfax County will only analyze flight risk separately from and after determining if a person is a danger to the community. [/b] Danger to the community ?

This document is No cash bond yet oddly continues with lists of violent crimes and flight risk.  If you stop at p 3 here it is:  ACA's must never request a cash bond and if defense counsel requests it must restate the position of no cash bond.  This document is blatantly contradictory with NO cash bond to stuff on violence and flight risk.  This is what we elected?

Sloppy work and read it here   https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/commonwealthattorney/sites/commonwealthattorney/files/assets/documents/fairfax%20cwa%20-%20bond%20policy.pdf

Failure to appear?  Didn't show up before and go by the stuff on the 1st 3 pages?  
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That's normal.  If someone is found to be a danger to the community, they aren't supposed to be released, cash bond or not.  Bond is for the sole purpose of ensuring someone's appearance at court proceedings, so it's only relevant if there are concerns that someone is a flight risk.  [/quote]

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