O’Malley creates panel on pretrial reform

Published May 27, 2014 11:04pm ET



ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — As Maryland faces a court-ordered deadline to begin providing defendants in criminal cases with a lawyer at every bail hearing, Gov. Martin O’Malley on Tuesday ordered that a panel study pretrial reform.

The Governor’s Commission to Reform Maryland’s Pretrial System will look at best practices from around the country and assess the use of a risk-assessment system to help determine who should be detained and who should be released before trial. Lawmakers failed to agree on a solution to address the court ruling in the last legislative session.

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