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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 14, 2018, 12:25:44 pm
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November 13, 2018
Outrage as Cook County judge grants $400 cash bail to suspect charged with raping a disabled woman
By Thomas Lifson
Illinois last year enacted a Bail Reform Law intended to make bail affordable for poor people. Kim Geiger of the Chicago Tribune explained at the time of passage:
…the new law creates new rights for people in custody at Illinois jails and aims to move away from requiring people charged with relatively minor crimes to post cash bail as a condition of their release.
The legislation reflects a general consensus among criminal justice advocates, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx that the state's cash bail system is unfair to poor people.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/outrage_as_cook_county_judge_grants_400_cash_bail_to_suspect_charged_with_raping_a_disabled_woman.html#ixzz5WpbHntsc (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/outrage_as_cook_county_judge_grants_400_cash_bail_to_suspect_charged_with_raping_a_disabled_woman.html#ixzz5WpbHntsc)
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Lighten up,you racists! This is Cook County,and the poor yout was most likely filling out a requirement to advance in his gang. After all,what self-respecting gang member can respect,never mind vote for in the future,a fellow gang member that was so slack he didn't "grab the low-hanging fruit" when he had a chance?