Bail for Richer and Poorer

NEW YORK – The Second Circuit ruled that a defendant’s bail application was property denied, after he offered to pay for private armed security guards to supervise his home confinement, because the Bail Reform Act does not permit a system in which “defendants of lesser means are detained pending trial while wealthy defendants are released to self-funded private jail.”

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