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Second Circuit Clarifies Conditions for Releasing a Defendant on Bail to Home Detention With Private Armed Security Guards

Loaded on Nov. 16, 2019 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News December, 2019, page 14
Filed under: Bail. Location: United States of America.

by Douglas Ankney

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit clarified the circumstances when a defendant’s bail may include home confinement coupled with private armed security guards.

Jean Boustani applied for bail pending trial, proposing conditions that included home confinement under supervision of private security …

 

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