Veteran criminal defense lawyers whose clients are incarcerated without bond during the COVID-19 pandemic are calling on the state’s chief justice to lift the suspension of a state law requiring that jailed defendants be given a bond if they have not been indicted within 90 days of their arrest.

That statute is one of several—including the state’s speedy trial law—intended to prevent defendants from being jailed indefinitely. The statute has been suspended since March under a series of emergency orders issued by Georgia Chief Justice Harold Melton.