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California voters reject ballot measure to abolish cash bail

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California voters have rejected by a 10% margin, a ballot measure that would have abolished cash bail in the Golden State. The electorate overturned a 2018 law, SB 10, which established a risk-assessment program that allowed judges to decide which suspects to free and which should remain in jail while awaiting trial.

Bail reform laws in other states reportedly sent some back to the streets within hours of their arrests, presenting risks to public safety.

But California's law went even further. A voter casts his ballot at the Los Angeles City College polling place in Los Angeles, Nov.

3. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Under SB 10, most suspects charged with misdemeanors were freed until their trials. More serious charges -- short of murder or.

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