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    "Hachi"Monique Judge
    7/17/17 8:46pm

    Interesting. I do wonder how this will play out IRL because the judge can still deny bail. I wonder how that may affect POC 🤔🤔🤔🤔

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      Monique Judge"Hachi"
      7/17/17 9:05pm

      People have expressed this concern, especially with the clause about the judge having “discretion.” How is that discretion applied across judges? What will happen with that?

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      "Hachi"Monique Judge
      7/17/17 9:09pm

      And by people we arent talking about the Tribune comments because, wow. I am for bail reform. But we are still essentially leaving it up to the judge’s to decide. And you cant enforce that.

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    RBG_til_I_DIEMonique Judge
    7/17/17 8:32pm

    Still leaving the bias of the presiding judge as to what’s a “danger to the public.” Where does low level drug offenses fit on the spectrum of public danger? I mean really, what does danger to the public actually entail? If it isn’t spelled out for a judge, it’s left up to his inherent biases. And nothing really changes.

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      Monique JudgeRBG_til_I_DIE
      7/17/17 9:06pm

      Real. Valid. Point.

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    HabitatNoHumanityMonique Judge
    7/17/17 11:04pm

    Color me cynical, yet is this due to the rapid opioid epidemic?

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      Monique JudgeHabitatNoHumanity
      7/17/17 11:55pm

      Interesting angle. Never thought of this. At the outset, I would say no, but who knows?

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    Obfuscatio: philosopher at largeMonique Judge
    7/19/17 4:19pm

    ... judges will be required to set affordable monetary bonds for defendants who do not pose a danger to the public.

    ... thus changing the definition of “a danger to the public.”

    ... unfairly and disproportionately affecting the poor.

    That would describe the entire justice system.

    Timothy C. Evans: “ ... I think people who are arrested will be given the full recognition that they are presumed innocent.”

    Cops: “If we presumed they were innocent, we wouldn’t arrest them. We only ever arrest the guilty. What the courts decide after that isn’t our problem.”

    ... the judge still has the option of denying bail altogether.

    Aaaaaand there you have it.

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    TrumpsTinyHandsMonique Judge
    7/17/17 8:48pm

    I am torn between “this is good, incremental improvement in the criminal justice system that needs many more improvements.” and “how is it that we’re in 2017 and this didn’t solved 50 years ago?”

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