Jails to open the doors, let bad guys walk free under shocking new laws

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A criminal defendant's right to be freed from jail on bond while awaiting trial is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights. The 8th amendment says a judge can't impose "excessive bail." But a national effort to reform bail laws is raising concern that dangerous inmates are being let out of jail where they can commit other crimes. Nancy Grace looks at the controversy with Beth Chapman, matriarch of the bounty-hunting Chapman family on the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" show and president of National Bail Bonds Association. Also in this discussion is Colorado bondsman Bobby Brown, and victims' rights advocate Marc Klaas.

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0:00.0	music
0:06.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace on SiriusXM Triumph channel 132
0:12.0	How many bell-bond hearings have I conducted?
0:19.0	So many hundreds, maybe thousands, I don't know, over 10 years
0:24.0	in Intercedent Lanna felony courtrooms.
0:28.0	I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories and I am on the alert.
0:34.0	A major, major change in the bell bonding industry right now
0:40.0	and it is going to affect crime victims everywhere
0:44.0	and it is wrong.
0:48.0	Please help us stop this travesty of justice.
0:53.0	When I first heard this, I thought I was hearing wrong.
0:56.0	I thought I didn't understand what's happening.
0:59.0	It's happening in multiple states but I'm going to use California as my example.
1:04.0	Because with me right now you know her well.
1:07.0	Beth Chapman, bounty hunter, along with her friend and colleague, Bobby Brown,
1:13.0	Alan Duke with me, and also Mark Class, Crusader for Crime victims rights
1:21.0	and a crime victim himself after the kidnap and murder of his little girl, Polly.
1:29.0	I'm stunned, Mark Class, I'm stunned at what they are trying to do in California
1:37.0	and many jurisdictions.
1:39.0	I don't want to make it complicated but explain to me in simple terms what they're trying to do.
1:48.0	Basically open up the jail doors and let the offenders walk free.
1:53.0	What about the victims, innocent victims, minding their own business when this goes down?
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