Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amend Delaware statutes governing pre-trial release for detainees and other criminal justice laws.

Highlights:

• Specifies that the courts shall have final say on conditions and terms of pretrial release or the need for preventative detention (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies the right to pretrial liberty (Sec. 1). 

• Defines “detention-eligible defendant” (Sec. 1). 

• Repeals previous language concerning  conditions of release bond or conditions of release bond not guaranteed by financial terms. (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the least restrictive conditions of release possible that reasonably assure the defendant’s appearance at court proceedings (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies what is needed from a defendant in order to qualify for a pre-trial release (Sec. 1).

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