Nevada Supreme Court study could greatly reduce jail release based on bail

A Supreme Court study committee is working on a plan that could make sweeping changes to how defendants are released from jail before trial.Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said there’s a growing legal and societal recognition the existing system based almost exclusively on a defendant’s ability to post bail isn’t effective and has been questioned as potentially unconstitutional.“What many states have found is they can release a number of individuals on their own recognizance o