🚀 go-pugleaf

   Dave Briggman (paradigm@mercury.interpath.net) wrote:
   : I have NEVER, EVER (and I was a police officer for four years) seen an 
   : accused kidnapper/rapist/armed robber allowed to be on house arrest 
   : until trial. I would have thought that when he was formally charged 
   : yesterday (arraignment) they would have kept him locked up or at least 
   : placed him on a bond so high that he would have had to stay in Orange 
   : County's jail.

Well, yeah.  If he's typical of the class of people who commit
this crime.  But you cannot simultaneously be typical white State 
student from an upper-middle-class background AND typical person 
who would do (or, at any rate, in America, get caught doing) this 
sort of thing.  Something unusual is going on.

In article <43qivv$g2m@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> sjcrisp@unity.ncsu.edu (Steven J. Crisp) writes:
 :   Bond is intended to insure that the accused will not flee from 
 :   prosecution. It is not allowed as punishment since that would be the 
 :   imposition of a sentence prior to the determination of guilt.

Never stopped anybody when the accused was black.
What are you trying to say, that because we run the 100
faster, we are more likely to get away?  Or do you just
mean that because he is a State student like you, he's
obviously trustworthy?  Let me get this straight, he's
evil enough to commit a rape, robbery, and kidnapping, but
NOT evil enough to jump bail?  WHAT'S WRONG with this picture???

 :   In this instance, there probably would not be a bond high enough that 
 :   could not be met by the parents. And if one were to be set so high that 
 :   it would have been impossible to meet, any good attorney could have had 
 :   it reduced.

Support that.
Nobody I know who knows what typical bonds are in these cases believes that.
And I do know a disproportionate number of lawyers.

 :   House arrest seemed like a good compromise and (unless I'm mistaken) was 
 :   an arrangement that had to be agreed to (no matter how reluctantly) by 
 :   the accused through his attorney. Now if he violates that agreement then 
 :   imposition of an improbably high bond (or no bond at all) could be 
 :   imposed since the accused would have tried to flee prosecution.

Violating one's house arrest does not constitute trying to flee prosecution.
Unfortunately, it carries much higher penalties than flaunting one's ignorance.