Recommending that cash bail requirements that don’t take into account a defendant’s individual financial circumstances be abolished, the American Bar Association weighed in Thursday in a federal case challenging bond schedules imposed by the city of Calhoun, Georgia.
The ABA filed a friend of the court brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta to affirm a Rome trial judge’s finding that bail bonds imposed on indigent defendants in misdemeanor cases by the city of Calhoun were unconstitutional.
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