The Bankman-Fried Bail
Whether bail of $250 million is excessive strikes us as a close question.

Is $250 million in bail for Samuel Bankman-Fried excessive? We ask because of the Eighth Amendment. It prohibits the requirement of excessive bail. We understand that Mr. Bankman-Fried didnât personally fork over a quarter of a billion spondulix. We get that he doesnât have to put up all of the $250 million. Yet we donât mind saying that whether this kind of bail is excessive strikes us as a close question.
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