Legal Opinion
State v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided October 30, 2012No. SC 92532PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.
Kirk Jackson requests relief following the St. Charles County circuit court’s setting of a $75,000 cash-only bond, arguing that the setting of a cash-only bond violates the requirement of article I, section 20 of the Missouri Constitution that “all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses.”
The constitutional directive that persons be bailable by sufficient sureties does not require that only commercial bondsmen can stand as sureties. Historically, and today, other third parties and a reasonable cash bond required of defendant have…
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