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Senate unanimously approves changes to pretrial process for certain violent offenses
Summary
The New Hampshire Senate voted unanimously to pass House Bill 592, shifting bail hearings for a list of serious felonies from bail commissioners/magistrates to judges and changing eligibility for personal recognizance release.
The New Hampshire Senate voted unanimously to pass House Bill 5 92 (FN), a measure that removes statutory references to magistrates and directs that people arrested for specified violent felonies be taken before a judge for bail determinations rather than before a bail commissioner. The Senate approved the committee recommendation and later read the bill a third time and passed it in the same session.
Supporters said the bill is intended to close what they described as a 2018-era loophole that in practice allowed some people arrested for serious crimes to be released without a timely hearing. Senator Abbas, reporting the Judiciary Committee’s recommendation, said the measure "repeals the establishment of the…
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