Steve Friedland, Senior Scholar and Professor of Law of the Elon University School of Law, provided analysis for WFMY News 2 in Greensboro, N.C., for a Jan. 12 segment on the bond amounts set for defendants charged with driving while impaired in wrecks that end with fatalities.
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Bond amounts, he said, are “about making sure they return to court and about making sure they are not a danger to the community at large and the judicial process.”
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Friedland had just returned from giving a Jan. 10 presentation at the American Association of Law Schools annual meeting in San Diego. He spoke on “International Legal Education Curriculum Reform Initiatives in Afghanistan, Japan and Mexico.”