South Carolina Attorney General Pushes Prosecutors To Get Tougher On Bond

What about the actually innocent forced to live in custody or under horrendous bonds while their rights to speedy trial and/or speedy retrial after a hung jury in a first trial get trampled on? And by none other than Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) who stands gloating behind Alan Wilson as he urges BASICALLY repeal of the Eighth Amendment which bans excessive bail.
Three stark examples from the 21st Century:
(1) Professor Chi Kei Rick Chow who languished in jail for three years because no judge in the length and breadth of South Carolina had the courage to grant him bail until a half-or-majority-black jury found Professor Chow NOT GUILTY for having, in defense of others, shot a gun-toting 14-year-old who had trespassed with that gun on Professor Chow’s store.
(2) Now-retired SC Circuit Judge Lee who got her nomination to the federal bench withdrawn because of the furor over her having granted bail to a defendant who was later also acquitted by a jury in the bakery shooting cases.
and (3) You guessed it, Dr. Marie Faltas who was made to live in an hotel for 50 months while paying rent for an apartment to which she was forbidden to return, all because Hatchet-for-Hire Heather Weiss had brought against Dr. Faltas pre-known FALSE harassment charges which were, thank God and due to Dr. Faltas’ able pro se advocacy, ultimately dismissed WITH PREJUDICE. Weiss knew, and could not not have known (double negative intended) that Dr. Faltas was the victim, not the perpetrator of harassment. But Weiss was paid $70K/year by the City of Columbia to be its agent in then-Barney Giese’s 5th Circuit’s Solicitor’s Office. And Dr. Faltas was then suing the City of Columbia. So, who pays the piper calls the tune. And the victim got charged instead of the real perpetrator.
You want prosecutors’ tyranny unchecked by the Eighth Amendment?
Be careful! Some day YOU might need that Eighth Amendment.
Who can give Professor Chow his three years back? Who can give Dr. Marie Faltas her 50 months back?
Does anyone even want to?
Because I always propose ennobling solutions, not pounds-of-flesh vengeance, I proposed a “days bank” where the days an ultimately-acquitted criminal defendant served in pre-trial/pre-dismissal custody may be banked and donated to other bail-eligible defendants who cannot afford the monetary bond.
Remember! Perjury and known-false prosecutions are crimes, too, the latter as misconduct in office.