Opinion No. (2000)

Dear Senator Robinson,

¶ 0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:

Does the presiding judge of a judicial district have theauthority to promulgate a rule or otherwise establish a pre-setbail schedule which sets bail amounts in accordance with thecrime for which the person has been arrested?

Introduction

"Jail Bail"

¶ 1 Your question was prompted by the promulgation, in some judicial districts, of an administrative rule which establishes a bail process to be utilized when normal bail proceedings are not…