backlog - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:46:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Top plea deals of 2022 https://bahamascourtnews.com/top-plea-deals-of-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-plea-deals-of-2022 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:15:34 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5885 Plea deals have been touted as a way to reduce the country’s criminal case backlog. Defendants are often given reduced sentences for saving judicial time by foregoing a trial. Nonetheless some of those plea deals have sparked controversy. Here are some of the notable plea deals of 2022: Man who got teen girl pregnant sentenced to […]

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]]> Why bail is important https://bahamascourtnews.com/why-bail-is-important/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-bail-is-important Wed, 28 Dec 2022 01:39:04 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5843 NASSAU- For years, the police have blamed people on bail for high crime rates, leading many to call for the refusal of bail for those accused of serious crimes. This shows a general misunderstanding of the role of bail in the criminal justice system. One of the most basic protections afforded to people accused of […]

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