"All right. Since its founding, this country has used monetary bonds in conjunction with pretrial conditions as an effective tool for ensuring that a defendant is not a risk of harm to others in the community, does not commit any criminal offenses while out on bond, and that he appears as directed at all future court dates," Bauknecht began.
The pretrial appeal of Bauknecht's decision is among hundreds filed since the legislation took effect. The opinions offer glimpses at how the new legislation is playing out across the state and clarify untested portions of the statute, but the appeals have come in such a volume that the state's highest court has convened a task force to examine what it called a "dramatic increase" in the number of cases sent to appellate courts.
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