Topic: i'd rather see him in jail than to see someone's life taken. · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 14 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Ex Parte Harris.

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1 Ex Parte Harris Anchor
texapp · 1987
green “i'd rather see him in jail than to see someone's life taken.” 5
2 Ex Parte Paul Edward Nimnicht
texapp · 2015
green “if the ability to make bond in a specified 10 amount controlled, then the role of the trial court in setting bond would be completely eliminated, and the accused would be in the unique posture of determining what his bond should be.” 3
3 Ex Parte Paul Edward Nimnicht
texapp · 2015
green “when determining reasonable bail, a trial court shall give the most weight to the nature of the offense and the length of possible sentence.” 3
4 Ex parte Tata
texapp · 2011
green “our sister courts have regularly found that a 100,000.00 bond for a third-degree felony offense is not excessive or so high that it constitutes an instrument of oppression.” 3

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