Balboa v. State

Ever since the English Declaration of Rights of 1689, in organizing themselves into a nation state with a formal government of law, all free civilized societies have included provisions that bail be allowed in an amount that is not excessive to nearly any one of their fellows who is accused of a *557violation of law.1 Historically and constitutionally the matter of bail at once implicates a generally accepted presumption of innocence of the accused and the compelling interest of the State that the accused appear to answer the accusation against him. Accordingly, invariably the governing law will…