Disproportionate treatment in justice system
Regarding articles in the Dec. 16 Tribune: How is it that the 32-year-old man with charges of possessing an assault weapon and large-capacity magazine and suspicion of drug trafficking has a bail of $45,000 (“Oceano man arrested on assault weapons, drug charges”), and the 17-year-old (now 18) charged with threats (per the article), but not with guns, knives and not under suspicion of drugs, has a bail of $500,000 (“San Gabriel Elementary School threat suspect to be tried as an adult”)?
Things seem out of proportion in our justice system!
Bill Hamilton, Paso Robles
This story was originally published December 25, 2015 at 11:12 AM with the headline "Disproportionate treatment in justice system."