{"id":1987873,"date":"2023-08-01T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-bail-for-any-crime-in-illinois-as-judge-oks-democrats-law\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:11:00","slug":"no-bail-for-any-crime-in-illinois-as-judge-oks-democrats-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-bail-for-any-crime-in-illinois-as-judge-oks-democrats-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Judge Approves Democrats&#8217; Law, Eliminating Bail for All Crimes."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fno-bail-for-any-crime-in-illinois-as-judge-oks-democrats-law%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=1987873&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>\n<h2>Illinois&#8217;s Top Court\u200d Upholds Sweeping Bail Reform Law<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Illinois\u2064 Supreme Court has upheld \u200ca groundbreaking \u2064state law that eliminates cash bail,\u200d paving the way for one of\u200b the most comprehensive bail reforms in the \u200dcountry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u200claw, \u2063passed by the \u2062Democratic-controlled legislature\u200b and signed\u200d by Democratic governor\u200d J.B. Pritzker, had faced opposition after a\u200b judge ruled it\u2063 unconstitutional in December.<\/p>\n<p>Similar efforts to reduce\u2063 the use of cash \u2063bail have \u2064been made in other states\u2064 like New Jersey, New York, and California. Cash bail allows defendants charged with certain offenses \u2064to secure their release by \u200bpaying money until their trial begins.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that cash\u2063 bail \u2063perpetuates a two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-reps-denied-entry-to-dc-jail-holding-jan-6-defendants\/\" title=\"Republicans Reps Denied Entry To DC Jail Holding Jan. 6 Defendants\">-tiered justice system<\/a>, where\u2064 wealthy\u200d defendants can \u2064buy their freedom while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-bail-for-any-crime-in-illinois-as-judge-oks-democrats-law\/\" title=\"Illinois Judge Approves Democrats' Law, Eliminating Bail for All Crimes.\">poorer individuals \u200bremain incarcerated<\/a>\u2062 for months.<\/p>\n<p>On the other \u200chand, \u2063proponents,\u200b including many law \u200cenforcement officials, believe that bail ensures defendants appear in court and prevents dangerous \u2063criminals\u2062 from being released back into society while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors from various Illinois counties filed \u2063lawsuits challenging the law, leading to the state Supreme Court&#8217;s recent 5-2 ruling that overturned\u2064 the lower \u200ccourt&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our constitution strikes a balance between\u200d the\u2064 rights of defendants and the rights of crime \u2062victims,&#8221; \u2063stated Supreme Court Justice Mary Ann Theis. &#8220;The \u2064pretrial release \u200dprovisions of this\u200d law uphold that balance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Under the \u2062new law, judges are \u200bprohibited from setting bail. \u200bHowever, they can order defendants charged\u2062 with serious crimes to be detained until trial if prosecutors can demonstrate \u200dthat they pose\u2064 a danger\u200d to the public or are\u200b likely to flee the\u200b state. Judges also have the authority to impose conditions, such as house\u200c arrest, on defendants.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the court&#8217;s decision, Governor Pritzker expressed, &#8220;We\u200d can now move forward with historic reform to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-supreme-court-rules-elimination-of-cash-bail-constitutional\/\" title=\"Illinois Supreme Court deems removal of cash bail constitutional.\">ensure pre-trial detainment<\/a> \u200bis determined by the danger an individual poses to\u2064 the community instead of by their ability to pay their way out of jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Daniel\u200b Wallis)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois&#8217;s highest court upheld a 2021 law eliminating cash bail, set to take effect in September. This paves the way for one of the most extensive bail reforms in the country. The law, passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature and signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker, had faced opposition but is now unblocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1987874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}