CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Delinquency Matters
......Custodial Detention
.........No Right to Bail
4 Cards On This Topic:
  • No U.S. or Cal. constitutional requirement of bail.
  • Preventive detention under N.Y. Family Law Act does not violate Fourteenth Amendment due process clause.
  • Statute requiring release of minor to parents without posting bail is reasonable.
  • Possibility of death penalty determines offense is capital, regardless of state’s inability to punish minor by death; minor not entitled to bail.