Case ID: so2d_341/html/0895-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SUMMERS, J., \n      DIXON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. John L. GRAY.
    No. 59242.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 3, 1977.
   In re: John L. Gray applying for Writs of Certiorari, Mandamus and Prohibition.

Writ granted. Bail reduced to $15,000. The State is entitled to provoke a hearing to increase the bail upon good cause shown. La.C.Cr.P. art. 321.

SANDERS, C. J., dissents from reducing the bond without a prior evidentiary hearing.

SUMMERS, J.,

is of the opinion that this Court should not reduce bail upon the unilateral representation of the accused, without a response by the State and without a record of the evidence upon which the trial judge based the bail amount.

DIXON, J.,

concurs in the grant, noting further that $150,000 is on the face of the record excessive. The purpose of bail is to insure the presence of defendant at trial. On the ruling on the motion to reduce bail, the trial judge did not allude to any reason for such a high bail.