RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
Sci Adv. 2023 May 5;9(18):eade3909. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade3909.
Roughly half of U.S. counties do not provide defense counsel at bail hearings, and few studies have documented the potential impacts of legal representation at this stage. This paper presents the results from a field experiment in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, that provided a public defender at a defendant's initial bail hearing. The presence of a public defender decreased the use of monetary bail and pretrial detention without increasing failure to appear rates at the preliminary hearing. The intervention did, however, result in a short-term increase in rearrests on theft charges, although a theft incident would have to be at least 8.5 times as costly as a day in detention for jurisdictions to find this tradeoff undesirable.
大约一半的美国县在保释听证会上不提供辩护律师，很少有研究记录在这个阶段法律代表的潜在影响。本文介绍了宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼县的一项现场实验结果，该实验在被告的初始保释听证会上提供了一名公设辩护人。公设辩护人的存在减少了金钱保释和审前拘留的使用，但没有增加初步听证会上不出庭的比率。然而，该干预措施确实导致盗窃指控的再逮捕短期内增加，尽管对于司法管辖区来说，盗窃事件的成本必须至少是拘留一天的 8.5 倍，才能发现这种权衡不理想。
