While cash bail does, in all honesty, need some sort of reform, letting people arrested for violent crimes freely roam the streets until their trials with a simple "I promise to behave while I'm awaiting trial" is stupidity on steroids.

The relative of a relative is still sitting in jail in California, and has been since last March, based on one accusation of a mentally disturbed sixteen year old girl who is now back home in the Midwest, and has changed her name.

The most dangerous thing legally, is to have a little bit of money as opposed to none or a lot, because the system will suck you dry in a effort to force a plea bargain so they get a win on their record, and the attorneys get paid.

Now they are threatening to take it to trial, in February but it will probably either be extended again or the charges will be dropped because the money is gone, and now the public defender has to take the case. When the state has to fund both sides and the witnesses are dodgy, these cases have to go away, if they can’t railroad you into a plea bargain.