{"id":1088696,"date":"2021-12-06T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T10:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1088696"},"modified":"2021-12-06T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T10:14:13","slug":"wisconsin-dem-frontrunner-sponsored-bill-to-eliminate-cash-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-frontrunner-sponsored-bill-to-eliminate-cash-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Dem Frontrunner Sponsored Bill To Eliminate Cash Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-dem-frontrunner-sponsored-bill-to-eliminate-cash-bail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1088696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.106382978723\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">As state legislator, Mandela Barnes tried to bar courts from considering the severity of a defendant&#8217;s crime<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-scaled-e1638560338611.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1228234126-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 December 6, 2021 4:58 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"94.323619241537\">\n<p><span>The Democratic frontrunner in Wisconsin&#8217;s Senate race sponsored a bill that would have ended cash bail and barred courts from using the severity of a defendant&#8217;s crimes to argue against their release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a state legislator in 2016, Mandela Barnes introduced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2015\/related\/proposals\/ab981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>legislation<\/span><\/a><span> to eliminate &#8220;monetary bail as a condition of release for a defendant charged with&#8221; a crime. Instead of setting bail, Wisconsin courts would be &#8220;required to release a defendant before trial&#8221; unless they found &#8220;by clear and convincing evidence&#8221; that the defendant would &#8220;cause serious bodily harm to a member of the community&#8221; if released. Under the bill, however, courts could not &#8220;use the nature, number, and gravity&#8221; of the crimes in question as the sole reason to keep someone behind bars, severely limiting prosecutors&#8217; ability to argue that the defendant would be a risk to the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Barnes&#8217;s bill\u2014which died in committee\u2014came years after Milwaukee County district attorney John Chisholm espoused similar views in his inaugural campaign. Those views have faced renewed criticism in Wisconsin after Chisholm set what he later <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-progressive-da-behind-waukesha-bail-catastrophe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> an &#8220;inappropriately low&#8221; bail amount in the case of Darrell Brooks, who allegedly killed six people in a Christmas parade rampage just weeks after a domestic violence arrest. Chisholm, who in 2007 &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; his policies would put murderers back on the streets, let Brooks walk on $1,000 bail days before the parade tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fond du Lac County district attorney Eric Toney said Barnes&#8217;s proposal would erode the ability of prosecutors to keep dangerous people in custody.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class>\n<div id=\":nx\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":nw\" class=\"a3s aiL \" readability=\"9.5\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"14\">\n<p><span id=\"m_9053999268418393964gmail-docs-internal-guid-19df1f20-7fff-52ff-5dae-2289f5bd8d02\">&#8220;These liberal proposals take tools away from prosecutors and allow dangerous criminals to remain free, making Wisconsin more dangerous,&#8221; Toney, who is running for attorney general, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Violent criminals must be kept behind bars, period.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Barnes, who did not return a request for comment, has already faced attacks from Republicans over his ties to radical criminal justice activists.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In September, the Democrat <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dem-senate-frontrunner-fundraises-with-radical-san-francisco-liberals-to-flip-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>traveled<\/span><\/a><span> to San Francisco to fundraise with the city&#8217;s district attorney Chesa Boudin, the son of left-wing terrorists who has ended cash bail and declined to prosecute serial offenders. California state senator Scott Wiener also attended the event\u2014Wiener has called to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which he labeled a &#8220;force of oppression&#8221; that makes &#8220;communities less safe.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Months later, Barnes received an endorsement from the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), a liberal activist group at the center of the movement to defund police. Barnes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/amazing-work-wisconsin-dem-lauds-group-that-aims-to-defund-police-abolish-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>headlined<\/span><\/a><span> a November CPD event to thank the group for its support, saying he was &#8220;very honored&#8221; to land its endorsement given its &#8220;amazing work \u2026 in states all across the country.&#8221; CPD organized a number of &#8220;defund police&#8221; rallies in the summer of 2020, which the group says played a direct role in local officials&#8217; decisions to cut tens of millions of dollars from their police budgets. CPD also sponsors DefundPolice.org, a &#8220;comprehensive web resource where organizers can find everything they need for their campaign to defund police in one place.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Barnes became Wisconsin&#8217;s lieutenant governor in 2019 after he and running mate Tony Evers defeated Republican incumbents Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch by 1 point. Barnes now holds a 29-point lead in the Democratic primary race to succeed Republican incumbent senator Ron Johnson, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/571297-internal-poll-shows-barnes-with-29-point-lead-over-democratic-field-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>internal polling<\/span><\/a><span> from September shows. Other prominent Democrats vying for the nomination include state treasurer Sarah Godlewski, Milwaukee Bucks senior vice president Alex Lasry, and county executive Tom Nelson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Should Barnes emerge from the crowded contest, it&#8217;s unclear who he would face in November 2022\u2014Johnson has not yet announced whether he will run for reelection.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections As state legislator, Mandela Barnes tried to bar courts from considering the severity of a defendant&#8217;s crime  Wisconsin Lt. Gov. 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