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Judges and Judiciary,
Criminal

May 25, 2022

3 Bay Area courts may not be following new bail law, says report

One of these courts counters that the report’s statistics are flawed, yet also concedes they don’t know how well their judges are complying with the March 2021 ruling in In re: Humphrey

A recent report claims three Bay Area courts are failing to comply with a California Supreme Court decision demanding judges consider a defendant’s ability to pay bail. But one of these courts claims the report’s statistics are flawed, yet also concedes they don’t know how well their judges are complying with the March 2021 ruling in In re: Humphrey, 2021 DJDAR 2813.

The report released last month by the group Silicon Valley De-Bug offered...

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