An Act to Amend Title 11 of the Delaware Code Relating to Release of Persons Accused of Crimes.
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 9
- Latest action
- Jul 31, 2019
What it does
This Act amends Delaware’s laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the adoption of Senate Bill No. 151, which proposes a constitutional amendment to permit preventive detention of certain persons accused of crimes.\r \r This Act both protects defendants’ due process rights and public safety by expanding the list of circumstances for which defendants may be detained pretrial without the opportunity for release and providing adequate due process protections for detention-eligible defendants.\r \r This Act protects public safety by permitting courts to detain defendants who are charged with an enumerated…
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