States Attorney Lacy Expresses Regret Concerning Recent State Supreme Court Safe-T Act Cash Bail Decision – Vermilion County First

This statement from Vermilion County State’s Attorney Jacqueline Lacy says, in part, "I firmly believe that this decision will be a detriment to the criminal justice system and the People of Vermilion County...(T)he legislature has now been given the power to change the Illinois Constitution without putting forth a referendum to the voters of the State of Illinois."
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PlunkYourMagicTwangerFroggy
2 years ago

Ms Lacy probably has forgotten more about law than Raoul understood. Affirmative Action vs hard work, intelligence and purpose. The difference is amazing. In a duel of wits, Lacy v Raoul, Raoul would be unarmed.

Giddyap
2 years ago

States attorneys are going to find ways to get around the purge law — just like Fake Prosecutor Crimesha Foxx found ways to not do her job

debtsor
2 years ago
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They’re going to overcharge every defendants and hold them as long as they can. I predicted this a year ago. In Cook/Lake/Sangamon County Defendants will go free; but in the rest of the state, they’re gonna charge a violent felony, stretching the law as thin as they can, in every case, just to hold the perp without bail. Keep in mind the law of unintended consequences. The stupidest people in the legislature, with IQ’s below 100, all believed that just passing a law to force progressive values on the deplorables was gonna make a progressive utopia…but the deplorables have a… Read more »

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