Commission weighs statutory language to implement preventive-detention amendment, members press for due-process safeguards
Prosecutors proposed detailed statutes to implement Senate Joint Resolution 1’s expansion of preventive detention; public defenders and judges pressed for explicit procedural protections, fast appeals and funding for pretrial alternatives to avoid jail crowding.
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At a meeting of the Bail and Release Review Commission, prosecutors presented draft 'trailing' statutes to implement a likely amendment to Article I, Section 17 of the Indiana Constitution that would expand preventive detention beyond murder and treason.
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