Legal Opinion
Saunders v. Hornecker
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided March 5, 2015No. Nos. S-14-0171, S-14-0172, S-14-0173PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAY, District Judge.
[11] Petitioners Byron Amos, Timothy Dwyer, and Frisco Saunders were held in the Fremont County Detention Center on unrelated criminal charges. None of the Petitioners were able to post the cash-only bail imposed by the lower courts as a condition of their pretrial release, and each Petitioner therefore remained in jail pending trial. In these consolidated cases, Petitioners request a determination from this Court that cash-only bail is impermissible under the Wyoming Constitution and Rules of Criminal Procedure. We affirm the lower courts' use of cash-only bail in this…
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