| Updated: March 3, 2021, 5:36 p.m.
As the clock ticks down the final hours of the Utah legislative session, a group of state prosecutors and public defenders came together Monday to call on lawmakers not to repeal a broadly supported bail reform package enacted last year.
Proponents of the reforms which aim to keep relatively low-risk defendants from sitting behind bars
for weeks or months awaiting trial
because they’re poor, while rich people can simply post bail and walk free say the system now in place under HB206 is significantly better than the old one, which was based on cash bail.