Re: EQUAL PROTECTION ISSUE - I NEED SOME INPUT

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Is the practice of giving bail arbitrary, or is it correlated
with either the nature of the original offense, or the nature
of the alleged probation violation?

California has some interesting state case law on the
difference of rights between those on probation, and those on
parole. Probationers are due fewer rights, the reasoning
goes, because they can ask for "straight time" and avoid
probation, while parolees are involuntarily put on parole.

I know of a guy who did six months in jail for simple battery-
he hit San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in the face with a pie-
rather than do 3 years' probation and abide by imposed rules.

Re: EQUAL PROTECTION ISSUE - I NEED SOME INPUT, 4/01/12, by Rachael Phipps.

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