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If he wasnt in a no cash bail state he very well could be behind bars. >>
Or he could have been free in most states, where they still have cash bail, if he had had the wherewithal to pay it. Is there any reason to think he wouldn't have?
Or he could have been detained by a judge in a no cash bail state for being a flight or safety risk, or made to wear an RF ankle bracelet.
On the other hand, countless people who committed no crime would have been kept behind bars for long periods awaiting trial, for failing to come up with enough money to bail themselves out; often for longer than they would have had to stay if they had been convicted.
At the very least, if the chief point of bail is to assure that a defendant with show up for trial, the amount of bail should bear some relationship to a defendant's ability to pay it, and how much it will harm him to lose it. An amount like $100,000 would prove difficult to impossible for a poor person, and would absolutely guarantee him showing up.
But for a Jeffrey Epstein or a Donald Trump, such an amount would be nothing; just a small part of the cost of "doing business"...