
Illinois Supreme Court to determine fate of cash bail
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The Illinois Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case determining the constitutionality of a 2021 law's provision that would have ended cash bail in the Prairie State.
Brief arguments before the Supreme Court's seven justices in Springfield on Tuesday largely centered on whether lawmakers have the authority to make such a sweeping change to pretrial procedures.
The clampdown on courts that require a monetary payment before a defendant can be released from jail ahead of a criminal trial is part of a criminal justice package that Illinois Democrats wrote following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.
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