The U.S. Justice Department has joined with the American Bar Association in asking a federal appellate court in Atlanta to affirm a trial judge’s finding that jailing misdemeanor defendants who were too poor to pay a cash bond is unconstitutional.
A friend-of–the-court brief signed by John Horn, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta, and Vanita Gupta, head of the DOJ’s civil rights division in Washington, on Thursday argued that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should affirm U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy’s ruling against the city of Calhoun in a case brought by the Southern Center for Human Rights on behalf of indigent Calhoun defendants who had faced jail because they could not afford to post a bond.
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