Is there a separate offense for jumping bail?
Thank you very much, Mr. Preski.
Are you aware of the audit of the Office of Clerk of Quarter Sessions just released this week for the years 2007 and 200...
In Philadelphia, the defendants know that there is no certainty.
How has the Armed Career Criminal bill worked, in your experience, in sending those cases to Federal court?
Well, it's a pretty big omission, not to register the fugitives with the national system.
But we ought to explore ways of implementing trial by absentia, which would put people on notice that they can't game th...
Because the appellate courts have upheld it. There is a constitutional right to a jury trial, so we can't change it by l...
Would there be any utility in having a separate offense or indicting for a separate criminal charge?
I think a hybrid of appointment and direct election, I think, would be helpful in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
There was an effort made in the Constitutional Convention of 1969 to change the election of judges.
Well, I believe that for the most part the sentencing is not the issue when it comes to our fugitive problem.
So the statute does allow for increasing the penalty which is prescribed by statute for an offense?
the efforts that Senator Biden made to have Federal funding and Federal grants ought to be carried forward.
What happens to the person who has skipped bail? Is there an additional penalty, an additional charge?
Well, I understand the problems that the Clerk of Quarter Sessions has, Ms. Vivian Miller. She's your superior, right?
It would be, probably, technical if you have a colloquy and you say, if you fail to show up, do you hereby waive your ri...
Would you recommend to a city like Philadelphia that they go back to commercial bail?
