Criminal
Aug. 23, 2017
Photographer’s murder inflames debate over bail, risk assessments
Opponents of bail system overhaul efforts are pointing to the murder of a San Francisco photographer as evidence that the pretrial risk assessment tools are a poor replacement for the existing bail system.
Opponents of bail system overhaul efforts are pointing to the murder of a San Francisco photographer as evidence that the pretrial risk assessment tools are a poor replacement for the existing bail system.
Lamonte Mims, one of the two suspects arrested in the murder of photographer Edward French, had been released from custody just days before French’s killing. Mims was under felony probation and had previously been arrested for pa...
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