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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
* In our country everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty at trial. This is true even though they may have been arrested & charged w/a crime.

*#Wisconsin & the fed. gov't both have ... 1/9
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
...criminal laws, but different approaches re: protecting constitutional #RightsOfAccused AND #PublicSafety.

*U.S. government procedure does NOT generally rely on cash bail — it only considers ... 2/9
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
... public safety. #Wisconsin, in contrast, relies on setting an amount of #CashBail to ensure defendant shows up for trial.

*Wisco’s system of cash bail gives great advantages to ppl w/money... 3/9
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
...who have been arrested & disadvantages ppl w/o financial resources **REGARDLESS OF RISK TO THE PUBLIC.**

*Nationwide, >80% of those held in local jails have NOT YET... 4/9
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
...BEEN CONVICTED of the crime for which they are being held; LESS THAN 1/3 are awaiting trial for a #ViolentCrime.

*In 2016, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes was among 8... 5/9
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
...#Wisconsin state reps, led by Rep. Evan @RepGoyke (D - #Milwaukee), who introduced a bill (trackbill.com/bill/wisconsin…) to bring the practice in Wisc. into line w/the federal system....
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
*In nearly 12 yrs in the US #Senate, #RonJohnson has NEVER introduced legislation to change federal procedure on detaining/releasing ppl prior to trial, nor made ANY public statement opposed....
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
...to this system which does NOT rely on cash bail.

*NOW, however, the #RonJohnson campaign/allies run ads suggesting the federal procedure should NOT be extended to defendants in #Wisconsin....
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#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
*Both systems have serious problems, the issues should be discussed honestly, based on #facts, rather than the gross distortions we see in attacks on Lt. Gov. @TheOtherMandela #Barnes re: cash bail.
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