{"id":27816,"date":"2020-03-06T08:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=27816"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:36:22","slug":"omnibus-judiciary-bill-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=27816","title":{"rendered":"Omnibus judiciary bill advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawmakers gave first-round approval March 5 to a bill that would make several changes to judicial procedure.<\/p>\n

\"Sen.
Sen. Matt Hansen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LB881, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Matt Hansen, would eliminate the court\u2019s authority to deduct fines automatically from otherwise encumbered portions of an offender\u2019s bond.<\/p>\n

An offender\u2019s bond should be returned at the conclusion of a case, Hansen said, and then the court can assess that person\u2019s ability to pay a fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because you were able to scrape together the money to post bond, doesn\u2019t mean you can actually afford it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Omaha Sen. Steve Lathrop introduced an amendment that instead would allow an offender to choose whether or not they wanted fines deducted from their bond.<\/p>\n

The amendment was adopted 35-0.<\/p>\n

A Judiciary Committee amendment incorporated provisions of nine additional bills:
\n\u2022 LB213, sponsored by Omaha Sen. John McCollister, which would allow a person sentenced to community service to apply to have their conviction set aside;
\n\u2022 LB282, sponsored by Hansen, which would require the court to appoint counsel when setting bond for an indigent defendant;
\n\u2022 LB776, sponsored by Bennington Sen. Wendy DeBoer, which would allow evidence from an expert witness regarding eyewitness testimony to be admitted under the Nebraska Evidence Rules;
\n\u2022 LB777, sponsored by DeBoer, which would replace references to infractions, misdemeanors and felonies and use the term \u201coffense;\u201d
\n\u2022 LB945, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, which would require cities of more than 100,000 people to prepare an annual report on untested sexual assault evidence collection kits;
\n\u2022 LB1007, also sponsored by Hansen, which would reduce the time between court reviews of a person\u2019s competency to stand trial to every 60 days;
\n\u2022 LB1041, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, which would clarify the process for making a grand jury transcript publicly available when convened to investigate the death of a person in custody or detention;
\n\u2022 LB1180, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Justin Wayne, which would increase the number of alternate jurors a court can impanel to six; and
\n\u2022 LB1181, also sponsored by Wayne, which would provide that a person cannot be held in custody while awaiting trial on an offense for a period of time longer than the maximum sentence for that offense.<\/p>\n

Following the 33-0 adoption of the committee amendment, senators voted 31-0 to advance the bill to select file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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