Kenneth Humphrey
California Proposition 25 would have abolished cash bail and put release in the hands of judges. It was defeated in November.
In 2018 an appellate court in San Francisco held in In re Humphrey that bail can be set in an amount the detainee cannot afford only if there is clear and convincing evidence that no other measure will assure the defendant's appearance at trial. Humphreys - then 63 was accused of stealing $7 and a bottle of cologne. Bail was set at $600,000, later reduced to $350,000.
The case was argued today before the California Supreme Court.
Today the case was argued before the California Supreme Court.
See some links below:
The Humphrey case and Prop 25:
Humphrey's bail challenge:
Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Cherminsky - op-ed
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