Abstract
The bail reform movement is leading to pretrial practice changes across the country, largely aimed at reducing pretrial detention rates or uncoupling pretrial detention from money. These reforms often include expanding or formalizing the role of actuarial risk assessment tools in bail determinations. Maine has not enacted bail reforms to expressly reduce pretrial detention, but since 2015, Maine courts have been using a risk assessment tool in bail decisions in intimate partner violence cases. Analysis of risk assessment practices in Kentucky and New Jersey, in comparison with the particular considerations in IPV cases, can inform Maine’s current bail system and provide models for bail reform.
First Page
139
Recommended Citation
Mac Walton,
Bail Reform and Intimate Partner Violence in Maine,
71
Me. L. Rev.
139
(2019).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/mlr/vol71/iss1/6