A bill to give Federal courts additional discretion to determine whether pretrial detention is appropriate for defendants charged with nonviolent drug offenses in Federal criminal cases.
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Committee
Latest Action · September 9, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S4549)
Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act of 2020
This bill removes the presumption of pretrial detention for an individual who is charged with a federal drug offense for which the maximum term of imprisonment is 10 years or more.
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