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by drewmol 1043 days ago
They do. But courts can set bail conditions and actions that explicitly ‘shall not be infringed’ can seemingly be infringed upon by those conditions. Judge ruled his actions violated those conditions and changed the terms of his pre-trial detention to be in a public correctional facility instead of at home.

He will appeal and the courts can decide if his rights are being infringed. If he was already locked up and had someone release this info, I doubt the judge would have charged him with witness tampering or intimidation over this, maybe would have warned him. Judge here just revoked his pre-trial bond/changed those conditions, which is within the judges power to do.