The Indiana Supreme Court has recently held in Fry v. State that when a defendant charged with murder seeks bail, the burden must be placed on the state to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant should be denied bail. The ruling has important implications for the pretrial process and the rights of the accused.

A couple of interesting commentaries written by The Honorable Gregg Donat, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court IV in Tippecanoe, IN and Tim Schnacke, Executive Director of the Center for Legal and Evidence-Based Practices can be found  on PJI’s blog.