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Trump’s bond set at $200,000 in Georgia election-related case
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The question I have is what if he violates any of the terms? It's not like they're going to throw him in jail with some secret service people guarding him. So it feels more like a show than anything with real force behind it.
Pretty sure if you violate pre trial conditions, a judge can issue a bench warrant and lock you away.
My question isn't what the law says they can do but what they're actually willing to do.
While Georgia has said that Trump is going to get a mugshot, his three other arrests have decided not to do the mugshot, not to do the perp walk, not to this, not to that. He's getting special treatment, and we don't realistically know where that's going to end. And with current law, former presidents get lifetime protection of the secret service, so there is a practicality question for if Trump is locked up.
I'm hoping that the trials bring out the truth, right now I believe the truth to be that he's guilty, and I hope that if he keeps violating the terms of the courts, which he seems deadset on doing, that he's put in jail for that while the trials are ongoing. But I don't necessarily think they will do that even if, on paper, they can.
It's easy. I've been in jail and prison. Segregation units (i.e. the hole) will give him his own cell.
Secret service can stand outside the door with only nominal contact with other inmates. And they'll be seg inmates. So at most they'd see Secret Service through the door.
Jails and prisons use seg units like this all the time. Inmates that need protection. Inmates who are suicidal. Etc. It's not just for inmates that break the rules.
Why do you think Epstein didn't have a celly? He was in seg when they murdered him. For his own protection against other inmates (child sex traffickers are going to get fucked up in most jails and prisons). Of course, it wasn't the inmates Jeffrey needed to worry about the most.