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The Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits excessive bail set in pre-trial detention. If a judge posts excessive bail, the defendant's lawyer may make a motion in court to lower the bail or appeal directly to a higher court.

The excessive bail provision of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution is based on old English common law and the English Bill of Rights.

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Excessive Bail Clause

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The Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits excessive bail set in pre-trial detention. If a judge posts...

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Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. This amendment was adopted...

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Bail bondsman

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Wisconsin. Applicable federal laws include the Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment and the Bail Reform Act of 1984, incorporated into the Comprehensive...

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United States constitutional criminal procedure

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of the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Vicinage Clause of the Sixth Amendment, and (maybe) the Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment...

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List of clauses of the United States Constitution

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Information Clause Public Trial Clause Speedy Trial Clause Vicinage Clause Excessive Bail Clause Citizenship Clause Privileges or Immunities Clause Due Process...

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List of United States Supreme Court cases involving constitutional criminal procedure

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comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme Court's docket. See #Jury Clauses Ex parte Bollman, 8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 75, 135–37 (1807) United States v....

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United States criminal procedure

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Process Clause Assistance of Counsel Clause Eighth Amendment: Excessive Bail Clause Fourteenth Amendment: Due process clause Equal Protection Clause Federal...

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Bail in the United States

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enacted their own versions of bail law. For example, Section 9 of Virginia's 1776 Constitution originally stated, "excessive bail ought not to be required...

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Geraldine Hines

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court when it found that the Excessive Bail Clause requires courts to make findings of fact when setting unaffordable bail for an indigent defendant. She...

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Incorporation of the Bill of Rights

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excessive bail This right may have been incorporated against the states. In Schilb v. Kuebel, 404 U.S. 357 (1971), the Court stated in dicta: "Bail,...

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United States Bill of Rights

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imposition of excessive bails or fines, though it leaves the term "excessive" open to interpretation. The most frequently litigated clause of the amendment...

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South African contract law

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liable for damage to a car parked there, in spite of an exemption clause in the basic bailment contract, because it did not to cover damage occurring outside...

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Rule against perpetuities

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"saving clause" almost universally as a form of disclaimer. This standard clause is commonly called the "Kennedy clause" or the "Rockefeller clause" because...

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Treaty Clause

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The Treaty Clause of the United States Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2) establishes the procedure for ratifying international agreements...

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Rowlatt Act

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on the immediate custody of the accused between the trial and release on bail for smooth implementation of the act. The act also provides a penalty for...

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Constitutional law of the United States

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interpretation. The Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court declared...

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New York Bill of Rights

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process, reasonable fines and fines with good cause, prohibition of excessive bail or fines and cruel or unusual punishment, free elections, right to petition...

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Criminal law in the Waite Court

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Clause of the Sixth Amendment and (maybe) the Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment—the Grand Jury Clause remains the only criminal procedure provision...

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List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court

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Salerno 481 U.S. 739 (1987) upholding Bail Reform Act of 1984 as not violating Due Process or Excessive Bail clauses Turner v. Safley 482 U.S. 78 (1987)...

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Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders

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The California defendants challenged their $50,000 bail ($573,684 in 2023 dollars) as excessively high, and won in the Stack v. Boyle 342 U.S. 1 (1951)...

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Contract

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differences. Accordingly, many contracts contain a choice of law clause and a forum selection clause to determine the jurisdiction whose system of contract law...

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List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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that Congress lacked the authority to place a time limit in the proposing clause of the ERA. Under the rigid standard required for mandamus actions, this...

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Hugo Black

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Seventh Amendments, the grand jury clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment's protection against excessive bail, and the guarantee of the Sixth...

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Index of law articles

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sentences – Bad debt – Bad faith – Bail – Bail bond – Bail bondsman – Bail schedule – Bailee – Bailiff – Bailment – Bailor – Bait and switch – Balance due –...

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