Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

It also shines light upon the prosecutor who has to make the case why a person should be locked up or not. The judge is supposed to be impartial and the AG's can't just mail it in anymore.

It also takes a lot of the burden off of the public defenders who can concentrate on more serious cases rather than going to bat for a person who got wrapped up for smoking a joint in a public park or was driving with a suspended license/expired tags etc.

Personally, the few times I was arrested, I was let out on indigence bond. If you're not familiar with that, it is basically the same thing as the new law but I have a feeling that it had to do more with the color of my skin than wether they trusted me to show up for court or not. It's been over twenty years so II'm not sure if the law has changed or not but my last bond was for 20K and I walked right out of the police station the next morning.

I had a buddy (my dog's original owner) who walked clean on 100k bond and the coppers even bought him McDonald's breakfast before he was sprung. Growing pot turned out to be not as bad as it once was thought but prison might have killed us both.