It won’t be until spring, at the earliest, before the Illinois Supreme Court rules on whether cash bail can be eliminated across the state.
A last-minute decision by the Illinois Supreme Court has sent the Attorney General's office scrambling.The court has scheduled oral arguments for March on legal challenges to the landmark criminal justice reform. The schedule does not give a date for the justices to issue a ruling.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul immediately appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to overturn Cunnington’s decision, which would only have affected counties that brought the suit.Last Saturday, the Supreme Court ordered that the bail law would not go into effect while it heard the appeal. The justices have requested filings from all parties this month and next.
But eliminating cash bail proved to be the most controversial piece. If it had taken effect, the Pretrial Fairness Act would have made Illinois the first U.S. state to completely eliminate cash bail.A last-minute decision by the Illinois Supreme Court has sent the Attorney General's office scrambling.
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