Ellsworth Johnson, lawyer and tutor at the Eugene Dupuch Law School’s Legal Aid Clinic, told The Nassau Guardian that requiring people to own property is an unfair condition, since there are many Bahamians who do not.
"You shouldn’t give someone bail and by the very things you require make it impossible for a person to avail himself of that bail," Johnson said.
Two lawyers, who did not want to give their names, echoed his statement, saying that bail requirements change from court to court and seem arbitrary. One said the requirements keeps people “running up and down for weeks.”
Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here
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Wait. Are you telling me that there is a court system that's inefficient and unjust to the common man? My God, I'd have never expected my country to be like so.
[sarcasm ends here]