South Carolina Chief Public Defender E. Fielding Pringle Argues that the Pretrial Program in Richland County, South Carolina is Unconstitutional If you follow what is the current bail reform debate, arguments in favor of using supervision by government or private programs using electronic monitoring instead of the accountability that aRead More →
ABC’s Jeff Clayton appears on “Renaissance SRQ” on WSLR-FM (Sarasota, FL) to discuss the Welchen v. Harris case and other bail issues. Read More →
Plaintiffs in Buffin v. San Francisco have filed their amended complaint in an attempt to survive complete dismissal; the amended version, however, appears to suffer from the same fundamental legal flaws. The fundamental flaw in the Plaintiffs’ lawsuit, according to Judge Gonzalez Rogers, has been that the legal theory onRead More →
The American Bail Coalition’s Policy Director, Jeff Clayton, discusses Governor Malloy’s proposed bail legislation to require all criminal defendants to post deposit bail on Connecticut’s CBS-affiliate 94.9 FM. Malloy’s plan would require a criminal defendant to post 10% of the bail amount set by the court in cash as an alternative to a defendantRead More →
Jeff Clayton, Policy Director for the American Bail Coalition, talks with WCRN AM about the Welchen v. Harris case in Sacramento. This case is the second one to be filed in the State of California by the criminal justice activist group, Equal Justice Under Law. Mr. Clayton discusses the weaknessesRead More →
