Ban on sex offender appeal jail release passes Florida House
A bill that would bar judges from granting bail to someone appealing a conviction of a sex offense against a child is moving smoothly through the Florida Legislature.
Rep. Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach, introduced the bill after outrage last year led by Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood and others when Mark Fugler was released while he appealed his conviction and 15-year prison sentence for sex crimes involving a child.
Leek’s bill adds sex crimes against children to the list of offenses for which judges cannot grant supersedeas bonds, a bond allowing someone to remain free while appealing a conviction.
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I cannot express the disgust and amazement for the stupidity, ignorance and hate the Florida Ledge has for anything concerning sex and the law. What the F…… is wrong with these people? Even Texas, where I am, has a better view on this than them. And Texas is one of the worst!! I call upon all registrants!! Leave this backward, corrupt country as fast as possible before it is too late!! I am!
Good luck finding some country that will take you.
Anyone they do that to they should have to pay out big time for no conviction.
So now, they’re also going to deny bail to the innocent individuals who are being trapped in sex sting operations where law enforcement pretends to be catching “child predators” on adult sites?
The problem is that there are still too many dishonest and corrupt people working in our legal system who are abusing their power, creating fake crimes, for self serving purposes, and forcing wrongful convictions (for the wrong reasons). If everybody working in our legal system was honest and had honest intentions and interest in doing the right things for the right reasons, this would be fine, but we’re not there.
The problem is that they don’t want to deal with the real issue. We first have to deal with the very real issue of having dishonest and corrupt people working in our legal system. That needs to be addressed first, before any laws like this are considered. We first need laws in place that protect everybody from from dishonest and corrupt individuals who choose to abuse their power. Their needs to be a system in place to identify these individuals, and there needs to be set consequences for these bad behaviors from people who hold so much power over everybody else.
This is for bond pending appeals
It is, I believe, the same basic thing.
Bail is a universal human right.
To suspend bail requires a finding of a public safety risk (compelling government interest).
Any public safety risk, in the case of sex offenses, is much lower than recidivism for most crimes for which bail (appellate or pre-trial) is usually granted.
So no finding of public safety risk (compelling government interest) can be shown in the (usual) case of sex offenses.
Suspending bail without a compelling government interest is very illegal!
A government cannot suspend the right to bail simply because they find a crime to be abhorrent. They must prove that there is a legitimate issue (such as safety of the community) at stake.
They cannot. (Except on a case-by-case basis).
I’m not sure they understand what the purpose of bail is.
How can it be legal to deny basic human rights to a small subset of citizens?
Like the right to bail?
How is its legal to single out people and deny them common and universal rights? (Just because you don’t like them)
Leek said in a phone interview. “I can’t think of a more violent crime than sex offenses against children.”
Murder strikes me as a more violent crime then sex offense. Dead is a lot worse isn’t it ?
Exactly, what if the child was you know, dead? Murdered? Sounds far worse than even some sex crime IMO.
It is funny you say that because when I was locked up, the murderers were who a lot of the inmates looked up to. They thought of them as Heroes and role models for some odd reason.
Like they had committed the ultimate act and lived to tell about it and were some sort of bad ass right of passage.