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While the United States Supreme Court ultimately declined to review a 2017 lawsuit claiming the use of Cullman County’s bail procedures unconstitutionally favor wealthier defendants, legal experts felt the case
<p>Roughly half of U.S. counties do not provide defense counsel at bail hearings. A field experiment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows that providing counsel can decrease the use of monetary bail and pretrial detention.</p>
A 2017 lawsuit claiming that the use of Cullman County’s bail procedures unconstitutionally favor wealthier defendants now has the potential to have a nationwide impact after a petition was filed,