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CA Bail Law Put on Hold

:  A California law (SB10) which would eliminate cash bail will not go into effect until November 2020 if it is approved by state voters.  Bob Egelko of the San Francisco Chronicle

reports

that a referendum on the law proposed by the bail bond industry has qualified for California's next general election ballot.  SB10 was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown last year and would have taken effect this October.  It would allow most defendants to be released on their own recognizance if they are not being charged with a serious or violent crime and do not have a recent conviction for a serious or violent crime.  Defendants who do not meet this criteria would be held without bail.  In a strange twist, the ACLU and most state law enforcement leaders oppose the law.   

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