I keep hearing about people in jail for 3+ years awaiting trial. If they’re ‘innocent until proven guilty’ I dont understand why they are confined. I thought there was a right to a speedy trial also or is that not really the case?
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Provisional jailtime can be dictated for a multiple of -motivated- reasons, all of which must be found within the law itself. (For example, you can dictate provisional jailtime if the person is a flight-risk in a case of homicide, and such a thing must be reasoned, but you can’t arbitrarily dictate provisional jailtime because the “person is ugly”, for example.)
The State (As in, Statal, not US states) must compensate the person in the event they served jailtime and are absolved (This is a case-to-case thing though, there is no universal standard to how much they must be compensated)
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