It’s easy to say that someone who kills their own child should be locked up forever with the key thrown away, or worse. But in “$10 million bail set for Kayleigh Slusher’s mom” a very important principle of law, of freedom, is brought into discussion:
Napa County Superior Court Judge Mark Boessenecker on
Kayleigh Slusher’s Mom
Friday set bail at $10 million for the Napa mother charged with the murder of her 3-year-old daughter earlier this year. The hearing took place after the mother, Sara Krueger, asked the court to be released on $1 million bail.
Krueger, 24, and her boyfriend, Ryan Scott Warner, 26, have been charged with murder for allegedly killing Kayleigh Slusher in January. Both have been in custody at the Napa County jail since February on no bail.
Napa County Chief Deputy Public Defender Kris Keeley had argued in a court filing submitted last month that Krueger, a lifelong Napa resident whose parents and sister live locally, posed no flight risk and was no public danger.
But on Friday, Napa County Deputy District Attorney Lance Hafenstein said the defendants, who had no vehicles, made “extreme” efforts to get to BART in El Cerrito in an effort to flee.
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Chief Deputy Public Defender Kris Keeley called the $10 million bail “unreasonable.”
“Unless the right to bail before trial is preserved, the presumption of innocence, secured only after centuries of struggle, would lose its meaning,” Keeley wrote in her motion.
According to Keeley, the highest bail amount currently found in California is in Alameda County, where bail in a murder case is $2.5 million.
Generally speaking, a bail bondsman charges a client 10 percent of the total bail amount as a cash guarantee, according to Aldridge Bail Bonds. . .
Napa Valley Register May 09, 2014 5:15 pm
What do you think? Is a 10 Million Dollar Bail bond too high? Does this bond amount negate the right to bail? …the presumption of innocence?
