If it can happen to him, it can happen to you if we don't speak up and take action against this injustice.
Tennessee law lists nine factors for setting bail and all nine favor Eatherly. The judge cited crowd size, which is not one of them.
One of those nine factors is the defendant's financial condition, and the statute explicitly says "the defendant's ability to pay shall not be considered." Tennessee is the only state in the country with that prohibition. The court declared Eatherly indigent and appointed him a public defender, then set bail at $1,250,000.
The bail has to be justified on the remaining eight factors alone, and every one of them favors him.
The ceiling for attempted murder with no priors in this courthouse is $100,000 bond.
It has never been higher. Eatherly got $1,250,000.
We demand his bail be reduced to 100k.