OAN’s Noah Herring
10:08 AM – Tuesday, July 18, 2023
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the SAFE-T Act’s cashless bail system across the state.
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Early Tuesday, the state’s highest court overturned a ruling by a Kankakee County judge in a 5-2 vote that upholds that the cash bail system is constitutional. The end to cash bail will go into effect on September 18th.
“The Illinois Constitution of 1970 does not mandate that monetary bail is the only means to ensure criminal defendants appear for trials or the only means to protect the public. Our constitution creates a balance between the individual rights of defendants and the individual rights of crime victims. The Act’s pretrial release provisions set forth procedures commensurate with that balance,” Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote in the ruling.
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