A mother of four with no arrest record who has stayed close to her upstate home for most of the last decade has been jailed at Rikers Island for 50 days, unable to meet the $2 million bond imposed after she was charged with running a Manhattan prostitution ring.
Legal observers contacted by the New York Law Journal offered varying opinions about whether the bail is too high in a case where Anna Gristina, 44, has so far been charged with a single nonviolent low-level felony. Their comments provide insight into how bail is set and reviewed in state courts.
