UB Law Pretrial Justice Clinic Resources
PTJC Reference
MD Casesearch
Clinic Manual (Fall 17)
Corpus Lex
(Password Required)
DbFace
(Password Required)
2016-17 PTJC Report
Lessons from PTJC
(PJI Webcast)
Law Reform to Protect Legal Innocence
(Light City Talk)
Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland
Pretrial Justice Organizations
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Pretrial Justice Institute
Vera Institute
(Bail and Pretrial)
Civil Rights Corps
Center for Court Innovation
(Bail Reform)
Gov's Commission to Reform MD's Pretrial System
Risk Assessment
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PJI Risk Assessment Links
Arnold Public Safety Assessment links
Federal Risk Assessment Tool
Opposing Mass Incarceration
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Prison Policy Initiative
Justice Policy Institute
#Cut50
Campaign to Cut Prison Population by 50%
Coalition for Public Safety
Key Cases
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Wheeler v. State
MD COSA 2005 - Pretrial Detention
United States v. Salerno
SCOTUS 1987 - Pretrial Detention
DeWolfe v. Richmond
MD COA 2013 - Right to bail counsel
United States v. Hammond
US Dist. MD 1999 - Live testimony Detention
U.S. v. Aileman
N.D. Cal 1996 - Extensive analysis of how courts analyze pretrial detention
Doctrinal Maps
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Liberty, Bail, and Innocence
Equal Access to Justice: 9 Indigency Cases
Five Types of Detention
Recent Decisions
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Collins, et al v. Daniel, et al
Brangan v. Commonwealth
MD Rules
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Rule 4-216.1
Pretrial Release - Standards Governing
Rule 4-216.2
Review of Commissioner's Pretrial Release Order
Rule 4-216.3
Further Pretrial Release Proceedings
Rule 4-217
Bail Bonds
Rule 4-231
Presence of Defendant
Rule 8-204
Appeal of bail habeas
Rule 15-302
Habeas Petition
Rule 15-303
Procedure on Petition
Rule 15-305
To Whom Writ Directed
Rule 15-306
Writ Service; Appearance; Affidavit
Rule 19-217
Student Practice
MD Crim Procedure Statutes
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1-101
Definitions
5-202
Restrictions on Release
10-105
Expungable Offenses
MD Crim Law Statutes
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3-201 et seq
Assault and related crimes
14-101
Mandatory sentences for crimes of violence
MD Courts & Judicial Proceedings
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3-707
AFLA in regard to bail
Institutional Reports
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Selling Off Our Freedom: How Insurance Companies Have Taken over our Bail System
(ACLU 5/2017)
High Cost of Bail: How Maryland's Reliance on Money Bail Jails the Poor and Costs the Community Millions
(OPD 11/15/2016)
Moving Beyond Money: A Primer on Bail Reform
(CJPP, Harvard Law: 2016)
DOJ Investigation of BCPD
(Civil Rights Division: 2016)
Defining Violence: Reducing Incarceration by Rethinking America's Approach to Violence
(JPI 2016)
Modernizing MD's Bail System
(PJI: John Clark 2016)
Detaining the Poor
(PPI: Rabuy & Kopf 2016)
Fundamentals of Bail
(DOJ/NIC: Tim Schnacke 2014)
Unsecured Bonds: Most Effective Pretrial Release
(PJI 2013)
Commission to Reform MD Pretrial System
(2014)
Warnken Report on Pretrial Release
(MD Bond Assoc. 2002)
MD Pretrial Release Project
(Deely Committee 2001)
Best Practices
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ABA Standards on Pretrial Release
Academic Papers and Studies
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The High Cost of Bail: Money Bail Jails the Poor and Costs Millions
(MD OPD 2016)
How Inability to Pay Bail Affects Outcomes
(Stevenson - 2016)
Heavy Costs High Bail
(Gupta, Hansman, & Frenchman 2016)
Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention
(Heaton et al - 2016)
State Bans on Debtor Prisons
(Hampson 2016)
MD Access to Justice Story
(Colbert 2015)
Advisory Opinions and Briefs
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MD AG Opinion on Pretrial Detention (10/11/2016)
DOJ Brief in
Walker v. Calhoun
(11th Cir. 2016)
OPD Brief in
Vaughn v. State
(COSA 2016)
Media Reports
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St. Mary's pretrial supervision program earns praise as it cuts incarceration
(Sun 5/27/17)
Frosh warns that bond industry-supported bail bill undoes Maryland court's rule
(Sun 3/14/17)
Maryland judges shifting away from cash bail
(Sun 2/25/17)
Crime and Capitalism - Maryland's Cash Bail System
(VICE News - 1/4/17 [Video])
She spent five days in jail because she couldn't come up with $1000
(Washington Post 12/27/16)
Bail industry fights back against legislative efforts to end cash bail
(Sun 12/13/16)
Justice by Algorithm
(Atlantic/CityLab 12/8/16)
Baltimore circuit judge was recorded saying why she set high bail
(Sun 10/26/2016)
Woman who appealed huge bail is ordered held without bail
(Sun 11/1/16)
Inside America's For-Profit Bail System
(Vice - Video 2015)
Demorrea Tarver Drowning in Bondsman Debt
(City Paper - 2016)
Editorials
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We're jailing way more people who've been convicted of exactly nothing
(Humphreys - Post 4/24/17)
Bail bond industry pays to play in Md. politics
(Sachs - Sun 4/4/17)
Don't let Md. slide backward on bail
(Huffman - Sun 3/28/17)
Special-interest cash could kill bail reform in Maryland
(Washington Post Edit - 3/15/17)
Bail reform at risk
(Sun Edit - 3/14/17)
It's up to Maryland leaders to bring real fairness to the state's bail system
(Washington Post Edit - 2/19/17)
Another bail failure
(Sun Edit - 2/10/17)
More work to be done on Md. bail reform
(Weich - Sun 2/9/17)
Money bail extracts too high a toll
(DeWolfe - Sun 1/4/17)
Bail Reform Begins with the Bench
(Makar - NYT 2016)
Wealth Shouldn't determine freedom
(Sun Edit - 2016)
Md's cash bail system costs taxpayers plenty
(Starger - Sun 2016)
The Problem with Cash Bail
(Walsh-Little - Sun 2016)
Pretrial Justice Clinic Home
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Money Bail and its Role in Mass Incarceration Symposium