California woman expected to be released after posting $35 million bail
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she is going to have a strong legal team to ensure she doesn't get convicted or get a lighter sentence. A person who has connections for that much bail money has connections to get the top most lawyers working for her defense team...
So for those arrested for crimes punishable by imprisonment, there should be no bail? You stay in jail until your trial, regardless of how fabricated or hollow the evidence against you? Guilty until proven innocent?
If the evidence is so hollow, you shouldn't be arrested at all. This is the same concept of probable cause. And yes, we have the right to a speedy and fair trial for a reason.
For everyone worried about her family's friends' money, keep in mind that although the property put up for bail may be listed in the names of apparently non-family, the actual owner can and likely is a member of her very wealthy immediate family. It could even all actually belong to her, under numerous aliases.
And to anyone who thinks the wealthy accused needs a passport to get out of the country, consider that there are private planes and sea-worthy vessels owned by wealthy foreigners (like her family) that would be pleased to fly her or ship her wherever she wants to go. I doubt she flies commercial.
If she does skip bail, I hope she returns to China and that the bail money retained stays in the SF Bay Area to pay for true rehabilitation of prisoners in jail and prisons, not just retention and punishment. We could set a better example to the world than the dreadful way we treat incarcerated people in this century in the USA, especially compared to our European allies.
If the evidence is so hollow, you shouldn't be arrested at all. This is the same concept of probable cause. And yes, we have the right to a speedy and fair trial for a reason.
So in your mind being arrested = guilty. Speedy, in the legal sense, can be up to a year. Which probably feels a lot speedier to you walking free than to the one in jail.
I'm astounded, not only at the amount of money she was able to raise, but the fact that she had bail set at 35 million dollars in the first place. That's crazy!
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Originally Posted by oceangaia
So for those arrested for crimes punishable by imprisonment, there should be no bail? You stay in jail until your trial, regardless of how fabricated or hollow the evidence against you? Guilty until proven innocent?
The point is to make sure the person stays put to stand trial. Some people won't stay put any other way. Maybe the court knows something about her that we don't. A lot of people in Cali with connections across the Pacific do disappear.
If the evidence is so hollow, you shouldn't be arrested at all. This is the same concept of probable cause. And yes, we have the right to a speedy and fair trial for a reason.
That's simply not true. Plenty of cases that lacked evidence for a conviction or entirely made up evidence or evidence withheld by the da or prosecution
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