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Second Circuit Clarifies Conditions for Releasing a Defendant on Bail to Home Detention With Private Armed Security Guards
Loaded on Nov. 16, 2019
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
December, 2019, page 14
Filed under:
Bail.
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United States of America.
by Douglas Ankney
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit clarified the circumstances when a defendant’s bail may include home confinement coupled with private armed security guards.
Jean Boustani applied for bail pending trial, proposing conditions that included home confinement under supervision of private security guards paid for ...
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