Why is Sandusky free on bail?

[RiverStone]

Per CNN: Sandusky, who is free on $100,000 bail, disputes the 23-page grand jury summary of graphic testimony describing the alleged crimes between 1994 and 2009, his attorney, Joseph Amendola, has said. On Friday, the lawyer told CNN that a rock had been thrown through a window at Sandusky's home.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/11/us/pennsylvania-coach-abuse/index.html

I have no legal training, but multiple rapes of children over 15 years - and this lowlife perv is out free?

Granted he has not been tried, but there sure seems to be enough evidence to suggest that he is a menace to society and most definitely to children. Would not we expect him to remain locked up given the gravity of the charges?

I don't get it? :shrug:

[mucifer]

1. he has more money than we do.

[Texasgal]

2. I thought he was still in jail??

WTF???

Really? he is loose?

[TomClash]

3. I suppose he's not a flight risk nt

[tblue37]

19. I would imagine he is, though. He has money and good reasons to run. nt

[madaboutharry]

4. The judge is an idiot.

[Texasgal]

6. Agreed...

PS... love your baby Boston! I have two... I am a big FAN! :)

[madaboutharry]

7. I also have two.

Bostons are like potato chips, you can't just have one!

[tblue37]

18. Or paid off--or influenced in other ways. nt

[0rganism]

22. or perhaps a client of Sandusky's alleged "pimping" ring

Maybe the judge would prefer if Sandusky didn't make any court appearances. It might be easier for everyone if he just "vanished" on the outside before the trial.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

24. It just occurred to me, easier to make him disappear. You beat me to it...

...by a few days ;)

[TransitJohn]

5. 8th Amendment?

:shrug:

[Rabblevox]

8. Bail is based on two things (officially) flight risk and risk to the community...

He's not a flight risk, he's not going to have any chance to be around children, therefore bail is not unreasonable.

What IS completely unreasonable, is that if he were not a wealthy member of the elites, bail would have certainly either been denied, or set much higher. $100,000 bail for crimes of his magnitude is appalling and offensive.

[markpkessinger]

10. Exactly...

...so long as the defense can make the case that any risk to the community can be reasonably mitigated by police monitoring, and that he isn't a flight risk, bail is a constitutional right, much as part of me wishes there were a way around it in this case.

[Nay]

23. This guy is NOT a flight risk? How did they figure that? Did they

confiscate his passport? Did they freeze his bank accounts so he couldn't flee? I would think this guy would be the picture of a flight risk -- he is wealthy, and he's prob going to go down for his crimes. Why wouldn't he flee?

[rustydog]

9. Innocent until proven guilty? the RIGHT to post bond because you

are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, not public opinion.

[Fumesucker]

11. Arrestees are denied bail all the time for far less serious offenses..

He's white, wealthy and powerful.

If this was a poor black man his likelihood of getting bail for this vicious and extended a crime spree would be less than the square root of negative one.

[Tom Ripley]

12. So he can be suicided over the weekend

[Safetykitten]

13. And now we have the correct answer.

[Blue_Tires]

14. he's no flight risk...

his face and name have been on national TV for a week nonstop...where in the hell could he possibly go?

[spanone]

15. k&r....

[Catherine Vincent]

16. Apparently he's not a danger to anyone

Go figure.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. He has a right to bail if he meets the criteria, however the bail is entirely too low.

I'm not totally convinced he's not a continued threat to children while he's out either, but if you've got as much money and connections as he does I suppose things like that don't matter.

[lpbk2713]

20. He hasn't lost his Good Ole Boy status.

Yet.

[Zanzoobar]

21. One can only hope that the judge believes there will be no need to try him.

[MelungeonWoman]

25. Because the judge is a crony...

And volunteers at Second Mile. Isn't that how it works when you're elite? Helping out a bud, same thing we'd all do.

:puke:

http://www.centrelaw.com/attorney-profiles/detail.php?id=1