North Carolina looks to bar cashless bail for violent suspects after fatal light-rail stabbing

North Carolina legislators advanced a new bill seeking to rein in the state’s cashless bail policies on Monday, following last month’s deadly stabbing on the Charlotte light rail train in which an ex-convict is accused of killing a Ukrainian war refugee.

State Sen. Danny Britt, a Republican whose district includes Hoke, Robeson and Scotland counties, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the bill essentially gets rid of written promises by violent defendants to appear at future court dates.

Instead, it requires judges only to allow those defendants out of jail on secured bonds, house arrest or some other kind of electronic monitoring, depending on their criminal history...