(CBS DETROIT)The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is opposing a set of proposals that would restrict the court’s power to detain people in Michigan jail who are charged with crimes.
The wife of deceased Deputy Brad Rackling joined Sheriff Michael Bouchard on Friday to oppose legislation that would limit the court’s use of a defendant’s criminal past in bail decisions and force judges to take the defendant’s ability to pay into account.
According to Bouchard, it might result in other catastrophes.
More people are being released from prison as a result. The pillars I just discussed—non-violent offenders for non-violent offenses with no history of violence—can help them reform it if they really want to,” he said.
On June 22, Reckling was shot and murdered in what Bouchard refers to as a “ambush.” In Madison Heights, the deputy and two other investigators were looking into the theft of a 2022 Chevrolet Equinox when the occupants got out and started shooting.
The charges against 18-year-old Raymone Raylee Debose of Clinton Township include murder of a peace officer, receiving and hiding stolen property, carrying a concealed weapon on four separate occasions, three felony firearm charges, carjacking, and criminal enterprise.
Two additional teenagers were charged with receiving and hiding stolen items, accessory after the fact of a felony, four charges of carrying a hidden weapon, three counts of felony firearm, carjacking, and criminal enterprise.
According to Bouchard, Debose had posted a $10,000 surety bond for a prior offense and was freed months before to the event. District Judge Kristin Hartig, who presided over that earlier case, came under fire from Bouchard, who asserted that Hartig’s failure to bind the matter over gave Debose months to avoid consequences.
“It left him on the streets and placed things in limbo. Decisions obviously have repercussions,” Bouchard stated.
The measures’ proponents assert that they will create a more equitable criminal justice system in Michigan that does not penalize defendants for their financial situation. But the time is running out for these proposals to pass because, after the session ends and Democrats lose their majority in the House, they will probably come to a standstill.
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