About a third of released felony defendants violate release conditions or fail to appear.

Evidence

One study found that 62 percent of those charged with felonies in state courts were released prior to trial, with bail denied primarily to those accused of murder or other serious crimes and to those already out on bail at the time of their arrest. About a third of the released defendants were either rearrested for a new offense, failed to appear in court as scheduled, or committed some other violation that resulted in the revocation of their pretrial release. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1699

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