• I sort of didn't pay attention when I heard last week but Derek Chauvin was released on 1$M bail recently. I'm sort of surprised people get bail on a murder charge, is this normal in the states? Is it something to do with the degree of murder that someone is charged with?

  • Yes, which themselves depend on each state’s laws to define them. If the law doesn’t prohibit bail for an offence, it depends on whether the prosecution can convince a judge that the defendant is a flight risk or danger to the public.

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