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42544
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Clark uses a “day in the life” description of proceedings in Guilford County Courthouse and landmark cases such as Jones v City of Clanton as illustrations that justice is more likely for those able to pay bail bonds. To further assert that justice is less likely for defendants on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, Clark proposes five reasons for why the bail bond system in North Carolina needs to be reformed. Included in the aspect of his argument that “justice for all” is possible are descriptions of successful pre-trail release programs such as ReEntry, Inc.
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42564
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The authors assert the deleterious role that court costs, outpacing inflation and steadily rising the past two decades, are playing in indigent clients’ ability to afford justice at the same level of their more prosperous counterparts. Underscoring their argument about this impact are a chart that chronicles how district and superior court costs have exponentially risen between 1995-2015. They include as assertion of the costs associated with incarceration of individuals charged with minor offenses, associated costs to taxpayers perhaps preventable by clients being able to pay court costs accrued earlier in the legal process.