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A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling that Dallas County’s bail system is unconstitutional because of how it treats criminal defendants who do not have the money to secure their release from jail. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion filed on Monday, agreed with most of U.S. District Judge David Godbey’s earlier ruling in a …

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