CENTRAL TEXAS (KXXV) — Texas voters will decide this fall whether to give judges more power to keep potentially dangerous criminal defendants locked up without bail through a proposed constitutional amendment.
Watch the full story here: Texas voters to decide on constitutional amendment allowing judges to deny bail for dangerous defendants
Proposition 3, if passed, would allow judges to deny bail in cases involving murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault or human trafficking if prosecutors can establish that a defendant is a flight risk or poses a real danger to the community.
The measure has drawn support from victims' advocates who say hundreds of Texans have been killed by criminals who should have been locked up at the time of their crimes.
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