From Suntimes: Kankakee County judge rules SAFE-T Act's cashless bail provision is unconstitutional; ILAttyGeneral will appeal to state's high court
A Kankakee County judge has ruled that the portion of the state's controversial SAFE-T Act ending cash bail is unconstitutional.
The judge's ruling late Wednesday comes just four days before cash bail was set to be abolished across Illinois. Attorney General Kwame Raoul stressed in a statement the ruling by Kankakee County Chief Judge Thomas W. Cunnington is binding only in a limited number of judicial circuits in the state covered by 64 cases challenging the law.
In Cook County, where judges and prosecutors have been training on provisions of the law for months and the courts made reforms to bond practices in 2017, Kling said he would expect to see bail effectively eliminated come Jan. 1.
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