Should offenders charged with violent and or sexually based crimes be allowed to post bail?

Answer 1

The following assumes that no deaths have resulted from the alleged crime.

Yes provided that the bail is accompanied by enforceable conditions of release like no contact with victims, weekly or bi-weekly visits to a pre-trial services agent, tracking device, etc. Make the bail six figures - at least $100K or higher. If the person can't post bail then every day is a credit towards a potential sentence.

Answer 2

The person is said to be a violent or sexually based crimes, but in America you are innocent until proven guilty. So, yes I think bail should be given. But since that is a very serious charge we are talking about the possibility of "Flight Risk" is high, but that is up to the judge not me.

Answer 3

Absolutely. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. However, I do think that the bail should be much higher for these people and there should be more monitoring of their activities. If someone is deemed to be a flight risk, then bail should be denied.

It is highly unfair (not to mention an infringement upon a person's rights) to be locked up when you have only been accused of a crime. If the crime takes months to complete, and you are found innocent, then the state has taken months of your life away for no reason.

As to that person that feels that child molestors should be incarcerated for life without a trial, how would you feel if someone that had a grudge against you accused you of molesting their infant child. Would you like to be locked away for life without the state needing to prove your guilt?

Answer 4

Everyone (except those charged with a capital crime) is guaranteed a right to bail by the Constitution of the United States.

Answer 5

Everyone is presumed innocent until found guilty by a jury of their peers. Until then they are only accused.Sometimes they deny the opportunity to make bail in cases of high "Flight Risk". That does not mean they shouldn't be allowed a chance to be out on bail if others receive the same consideration. Remember it may take months to years to complete a criminal trial. Is it fair to someone of they are not convicted to be incarcerated all that time?

Answer 6

Yes. A person is innocent unless proven guilty. So the accusation is not enough to warrant them being incarcerated. The only reason to deny bail would be if they were a flight risk

Answer 7

it amazes me when I hear some people talk about what is right or wrong, as some people want to impress others that they in no way would ever break the law,when if fact I would venture to say that these same people break the law daily, but, if and when they get caught the first thing they say is "I didn't think his law applied to me" as the people in California said about the gang laws when their kids got caught up in this trap,
our constitution says we are innocent until proven guilty, hummm
then why do we need a hugh bond to get out of jil when we are arrested? also why are there so many innocent men in prison how can you prove someone who is guilty when they are innocent?? it is because of what they call circumstancial evidence?? so if a man has a gun and a car he could be charged with robbing a bank, when actually no bank has even been
robbed,or some one get mad at another and tells the cops this person did something hit them stole something or ??? the accused must put up a bond to get out of jail and they have not did one thing wrong hummm what about the poor slob who can't buy his bond or know some one that will go his bond ? he will sit in jail until he is tried in a court of law, and that could be 6 months a year or even longer, and since he didn't have money for a bond he certainly won't have money for a lawyer , so the state appoints him a public defender or what is known as a ( public pretender) who will do exactly what his employer (the court ) wants him to do , get you convicted,I have known to many men who have went to prison and had not did one thing wrong, they just didn't have the money to buy justice, and I hear this B,S, about how the courts let the criminals go free, who the hell are you kidding? no one gets out free, even the rich must pay,
since America has a 98,8 percent conviction ratio name some one that is not filthy rich that got off ?? unless thay are a minority and are afraid of the N,A,A,C,P, OR A;C;L;U.

Answer 8

it fairly is somewhat unconstitutional, and not something extra desirable than an attempt to coerce conversions on the element of the lawmakers and churches in touch. there is little or no connection between non secular faith and failure to devote crimes, based on the style of human beings in reformatory with a powerful faith in God. besides, the reality that there are a limited style of churches in touch leaves many human beings without techniques proper to their ideals (or lack thereof) -- and that i heavily doubt the lawmakers who pushed this via might settle for a Wiccan coven if one in all those team volunteered. I seem to remember besides that the regulation mandated church attendance on *Sundays*, which de facto excludes any faith whose worship amenities are hung on a different day (Judaism, all of us?). to assert not something of atheists being caught without an selection in any respect. even with all that, however, the government should not be interior the corporate of attempting to tension, coerce, or inspire human beings to attend any specific churches, or perhaps non secular amenities regularly. And whilst your purely techniques are church or reformatory, sure, it fairly is coercion. in the event that they desire to attempt something it fairly is the two Constitutionally-sound and surely effective, then perchance they could institute some style of scientific care or counseling software instead to reformatory -- secular, and surely proper to the subject concerns they try to tackle. I agree that the judicial equipment interior the US is lots too concentrated on punishment and not almost worried adequate with rehabilitation, yet it is the incorrect thank you to bypass approximately it.

Answer 9

I wish we could say no, but with the overcrowding of our jails, we have no choice but to let them as long as they don't pose an immediate risk. Here's the problem: Nobody wants a jail built in their neighborhood, but the alternative is to let them roam free in our neighborhoods because there is no place to put them. They can build a prison in my basement as long as they promise to keep the doors locked!!!!!!

Answer 10

No,,,sexual offenders should be locked up without bail until thier trial date. Child molester should not even get a trial but should be locked up forever and ever and ever. They are the worst of the worst and as soon as they get to prison, they are lucky to make it for the first year until someone wacks them. All of the above of course if it's 100% sure they are the guilty one.