{"id":2254155,"date":"2024-05-28T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutor-says-some-criminals-are-back-on-streets-with-no-cash-bail-law\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:22:07","slug":"prosecutor-says-some-criminals-are-back-on-streets-with-no-cash-bail-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutor-says-some-criminals-are-back-on-streets-with-no-cash-bail-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor reports criminals returning to streets due to no cash bail law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fprosecutor-says-some-criminals-are-back-on-streets-with-no-cash-bail-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=2254155&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--><p>An Illinois district attorney pointed out that the \u200dstate&#8217;s no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-republican-rep-lee-zeldin-shows-lead-over-democrat-gov-kathy-hochul\/\" title=\"Poll: Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin Shows Lead over Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-state-blues-gets-worse\/\" title=\"Blue State Blues Gets Worse\">cash bail<\/a> law<\/a> \u200dis enabling certain criminals to\u2062 stay free before their court hearings. As of \u200cSeptember 18, 2023, following a ruling by the \u2063Illinois Supreme Court, the state&#8217;s courts have \u2064stopped using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-inside-look-at-californias-radical-new-k-12-curriculum\/\" title=\"An Inside Look At California\u2019s Radical New K-12 Curriculum\">cash bail system<\/a>. They have instead switched to a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutors-offer-plea-deal-to-nyc-lawyers-who-firebombed-police-vehicle\/\" title=\"Prosecutors Offer Plea Deal to NYC Lawyers Who Firebombed Police Vehicle\">pretrial release<\/a>&#8220;\u2064 system as per the legislative provisions. An \u200dIllinois prosecutor has voiced concerns that\u200d the\u200d no cash\u200d bail law is causing some criminals to remain free until their court trials. Post a declaration \u2062by the Illinois Supreme Court, Illinois courts discontinued \u2062the cash bail system \u2063as of September 18, 2023. In its place, a &#8220;pretrial release&#8221; system was implemented,\u2064 in compliance with the new legislation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013\u00a0An Illinois district attorney says the state\u2019s no cash bail law is allowing for some criminals to remain free pending a court appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Supreme Court declared the legislation ending cash bail constitutional. Beginning on Sept. 18, 2023, Illinois courts no longer used a cash bail system. Instead, they use a \u201cpretrial release\u201d system as allowed by the Pretrial Fairness Act found in the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act approved in early 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The Federalist Society hosted a discussion with legal experts on an update around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/perino-breaks-down-over-bail-reform-tragedy-dont-think-ive-ever-cried-on-tv\/\" title=\"Perino Breaks Down Over \u2018Bail Reform\u2019 Tragedy: \u2018Don\u2019t Think I\u2019ve Ever Cried On TV\u2019\">bail reform<\/a> after nine months. <\/p>\n<p>David Olson from the Criminal Justice Department at Loyola University said no cash bail looks different around the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a statewide law but every jurisdiction is implementing things a little bit differently and this is some of the stuff we are seeing early on with the research,\u201d Olson said. <\/p>\n<p>DuPage County State\u2019s Attorney Robert Berlin said violent criminals are being held, but many other perpetrators go free.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere I believe we are seeing some deficiencies are crimes like burglary, retail theft, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, these offenses, for the most part, judges can only detain if the defendant is a willful risk of flight, and that is a difficult standard to prove,\u201d Berlin said.  <\/p>\n<p>In DuPage County, Berlin said about a third of all their petitions for detention are domestic batteries or violations of orders of protection, and only 34% of those are held behind bars pending a court appearance, a number he calls low.  <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement agencies have opposed nearly every aspect of the SAFE-T Act, including no cash bail. Some, including the Illinois Sheriffs\u2019 Association, have expressed frustration by the lack of consistency on what is detainable. <\/p>\n<p>Since the Pretrial Fairness Act went into effect, a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net\/antilles-resources\/resources\/628434e3-d07f-4ead-b1f6-4470d7e83bf3\/Pretrial%20Release%20Appeals%20Task%20Force%20Report_March%202024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a><\/strong> indicates that appellate courts have been inundated with appeals cases. The Pretrial Release Task Force that was created by the Illinois Supreme Court called the increase \u201cstaggering.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois District Attorney claims the state&#8217;s no cash bail law enables some criminals to stay free pending court dates. After the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the new legislation, as of September 18, 2023, Illinois courts ceased using the cash bail system, instead adopting a different method<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2254156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24010797880197.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24010797880197.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254155","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}