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Committee advances bill to clarify judges' authority for limited preventive detention
Summary
After stakeholder negotiations and two technical amendments, the committee passed Senator Freeman's clarification bill on preventative detention and related bail provisions. Sponsors and defenders emphasized protections for due process while supporters said the bill targets repeat serious violent offenders.
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee passed Senate Bill 2 as amended, a bill to clarify how judges may use preventative detention in limited circumstances and to adjust several bail procedures.
Senator Freeman, sponsor of the measure, told the committee the bill grew from two years of stakeholder work and a companion constitutional resolution and that the intent is not broad preventative detention but to provide judges clearer legislative guidance for holding repeat serious violent offenders.…
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