Lawyer v. Crawford

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The trial judge declined to consider testimony relating to the defendant Lawyer’s amenability to bond, because of an acknowledged blanket policy that he would not grant pre-trial release, regardless of the defendant’s circumstances, in any armed robbery case in which, as here, the proof is evident and the presumption great.1 *37This was clearly impermissible. Under State v. Arthur, 390 So.2d 717, 719 (Fla.1980), the trial court is required in any life felony case to exercise its discretion as to whether bail should or should not be allowed upon consideration of the entire…