An Act Proposing an Amendment to Article I, § 12 of the Delaware Constitution Relating to Criminal Procedures.
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
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- Senate
- Sponsors
- +5
- Latest action
- Jul 31, 2019
What it does
This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that modernizes the Delaware Constitution’s bail provision and clarifies the power of the General Assembly and the Courts to define certain felony offenses for which, or circumstances under which, pretrial release on bail may not be available. Upon enactment of the second leg of this constitutional amendment, Article I, § 12 of the Delaware Constitution proposed will do all of the following: (1) Retain the express declaration of a general right to have bail set in a criminal case. (2) Provide that the only crimes for which bail must be withheld are capital murder, where the evidentiary proof is positive and presumption of the…
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