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In New Hampshire, a writ of habeas corpus which is a summons to the court, may be used to change the amount of excessive bail; the bail must be "reasonable". [ 5 ] New York
Addison was transported to the Suffolk County Jail in New Hampshire where his bail was set at $2 million (3,131,000 in 2024). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] New Hampshire prosecutors sought the death penalty for Michael Addison, since killing the police officer qualified the crime as a capital murder.
The Eighth Amendment was adopted, as part of the Bill of Rights, in 1791.It is almost identical to a provision in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, in which Parliament declared, "as their ancestors in like cases have usually done ... that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Opinion: 8th Amendment bars federal government from imposing excessive bail and fines and prohibits the inflicting of cruel and unusual punishments.
Sep. 25—A judge who has been criticized for being too lenient in allowing defendants to post bond, including the unusual release this year of a capital murder defendant, on Friday will hear ...
United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987), was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that the Bail Reform Act of 1984 was constitutional, which permitted the federal courts to detain an arrestee prior to trial if the government could prove that the individual was potentially a danger to society.
The case regards the Eighth Amendment issue of excessive bail. The District Court had set bail at the fixed amount of $50,000 (roughly $500,000 in 2017 [ 1 ] ) for each of the petitioners. This was an amount greater than that used with other serious crimes.
Guilderson said the shooting occurred on the night of July 17, 2023, at about 8:28 p.m. in New Bedford's south end at Orchard and Rivet streets.