Sentence examples for bail schedule from inspiring English sources

Bowen, a Superior Court judge, consulted a bail schedule, then set the amount at $80,000.

The 14th circuit has no bail schedule – each judge determines bail on a case-by-case basis.

The new law, which goes into effect in October 2019, would get rid of the bail schedule completely, aiming to individualize decisions about pretrial release.

Under current law in California — as with many jurisdictions in the United States — bail is often set according to a fixed "bail schedule," a chart full of bail amounts that correspond with the charge and the defendant's criminal history.

At present, judges can assess a dollar amount for a defendant's release, a price set county-by-county through a "bail schedule". By the fall of next year, that option will be gone, forcing California judges to choose between releasing defendants or holding them in "preventive detention" until their court dates.

A federal court is likely to strike down San Francisco's existing bail schedule as unconstitutional.

Bail schedules tend to reflect community values.

The Pretrial Justice Institute argues bail schedules should be eliminated in favor of individual risk assessments.

Then there's Florida, where bail schedules – lists of recommended bail amounts – are difficult to come by and rarely are posted on court websites.

Bail schedules provide only a starting point – judges are supposed to take a range of factors into account when setting bail.

And prosecutors complain that some judges rely too heavily on bail schedules, treating first-time offenders the same as defendants with long rap sheets.