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California sticks to cash bail, rejects nation-leading move

by Don Thompson
| November 4, 2020 11:27 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters stuck with the state’s traditional cash bail system in this year's balloting, rejecting a nation-leading move to rely instead on risk assessments to decide which suspects should remain jailed awaiting trial.

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