1.   Bail magistrates include court clerk magistrates, assistant clerk magistrates and noncourt personnel appointed as bail commissioners by the Superior Court.

2.   But Weld also proposed that only judges should set bail in domestic violence cases, confining bail magistrates to cases that do not involved domestic violence.

3.   More often than not, defendants were released on bail shortly after their arrest, and the bail magistrates collected the fee.

4.   Unlike bail magistrates, judges can consider the dangerousness of defendants as one of the factors in setting bail.