Monthly Archives: August 2022
Getting Out Of Jail, And Staying Out Of Jail, In Marion County
Especially with the rise of COVID and other serious infectious diseases, the high percentage of unsentenced inmates in American jails has gotten a lot of attention recently. And, Indiana has one of the highest percentages of unsentenced county jail inmates in the country. This fact has affected pretrial release in Marion County at multiple… Read More »
If I Provided A Chemical Sample, Am I Automatically Guilty?
In a word, no. While the conviction rate in breath and blood test cases is much higher than the conviction rate in non-test cases, convictions in test cases are far from automatic. That’s mostly because the state must still prove the breath or blood test result was reliable. And, prosecutors must establish this point… Read More »