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Article: FIGHTING CRIME: GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSES BAIL-BOND REFORM BILL MOORE: ``VICTORY'' FOR PORTSMOUTH VIOLENT CRIMINALS CHARGED IN NEW CRIMES MUST NOW PROVE THEY'RE NOT A COMMUNITY RISK.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- March 6, 1996
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Byline: LYNN WALTZ, STAFF WRITER
RICHMOND -- A bail-bond reform bill that will make it more difficult for violent criminals to be released before trial has passed the General Assembly.
The bill would apply to defendants charged with violent or serious drug crimes who previously had been convicted of violent or serious drug crimes.
Declaring the bill ``a major victory'' in the war on crime, Del. Billy Moore, D-Portsmouth, said the reform bill will ``solve 75 percent'' of the violent crime problem in Portsmouth. The bill must be signed by the governor before it becomes law.
The bill rose out of complaints from Portsmouth citizens and officials about the high ...