Last night: I argued bail on 8 cases in 20 minutes. Also last night: Manafort’s attorneys submitted a 9 page bail response, filed 5 days after Mueller requested to revoke release, all of which will be argued in a robust hearing next Friday, while he remains at liberty. 2 systems.
“The process afforded to the privileged is not afforded to the majority of people arrested. It’s not that I & other public defenders oppose Manafort & Weinstein & Cosby at liberty. It’s that the process available to them is never available to our clients.”theintercept.com/2018/06/09/pau…
400K people, a quarter of all incarcerated in the U.S. are locked up pre-trial, presumed innocent. It's not just the police arresting them, or judges making the decision to set the bail. It's prosecutors requesting bail w/o considering their means:
