Comment by q1w2
3 years ago
I'd love to hear the details of your situation.
When a judge sets bail bond (which is what you're referring to in your prior comments - yes I read back because I was curious), it is either to ensure the accused returns for trial, or they set it very high to keep them in jail because they are a significant flight-risk.
I suspect you being a UK citizen was a big factor there - but I'm very surprised that your case is taking TEN YEARS and that you've been in jail the majority of that time. How does that happen? Are you appealing a prior case outcome?
You also got 1.5 additional years for violating a court gag order on your own case? Is that right?
It was only five months for posting on Twitter. I can probably link to the main Tweet at this point:
https://twitter.com/CookCoDefender/status/153495695650234778...
https://nitter.net/CookCoDefender/status/1534956956502347784
I reposted the above Tweet and the judge freaked out about it. The newspaper article is about the fact I was getting arrested every day when I was on house arrest for a short time in 2021/2022 due to the monitoring system being a piece of crap. The judge said I shouldn't be posted under a fake name. My name is Charles and the link is to a newspaper article written about me under my real name.
The other one that was at issue looked almost exactly like this, but wasn't this exact one:
https://twitter.com/OneKingCharles/status/152697261340637593...
https://nitter.net/OneKingCharles/status/1526972613406375936
The judge said I should not be Tweeting about police misconduct.
10 years. And the prosecutor called me to court and dropped all the charges a week or so ago.
The bail amount was set simply because I was a UK citizen, despite handing the court my passport, despite owning a house, despite being married to a US citizen.
Illinois just became the first state to abolish cash bail, so this problem will be less frequent now as the bar is higher.
Courts have been routinely ruling lately that cash bail was always constitutionally invalid, which makes sense, because it distinguishes rich from poor.