Writ granted. Bail reduced to $15,000. The State is entitled to provoke a hearing to increase the bail upon good cause shown. La.C.Cr.P. art. 321.
SANDERS, C.J., dissents from reducing the bond without a prior evidentiary hearing.
SUMMERS, J., is of the opinion that this Court should not reduce bail upon the unilateral representation of the accused, without a response by the State and without a record of the evidence upon which the trial judge based the bail...
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