Editing Failure to appear (section)

=== Consequences for future proceedings ===
An FTA will often follow a defendant in future proceedings. When deciding whether to release someone pretrial, a judge must usually ask whether a defendant is likely to appear for trial if released and whether the defendant would pose a danger to the community.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Baradaran |first1=Shima |last2=McIntyre |first2=Frank L. |date=2012 |title=Predicting Violence |url=http://texaslawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Baradaran-McIntyre-90-TLR-497.pdf |journal=Texas Law Review |volume=90 |pages=499 |doi= |issn=}}</ref> A defendant's record of prior court attendance is one of the primary factors that a judge looks to when determining whether to grant pretrial release.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baradaran Baughman |first=Shima |date=2020 |title=Dividing Bail Reform |url=https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/assets/Uploads/ILR-105-3-Baughman-1-v5.pdf |journal=Iowa Law Review |volume=105 |pages=988}}</ref> Having a single FTA can lead courts to refuse to release defendants on their own [[recognizance]] or let them post bail.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last1=Lo |first1=Puck |last2=Corey |first2=Ethan |date=January 9, 2019 |title=The 'Failure to Appear' Fallacy |url=https://theappeal.org/the-failure-to-appear-fallacy/ |access-date= |website=The Appeal |language=en}}</ref> Some courts rely on risk-assessment tools, which use algorithms to predict the likelihood that a defendant will not appear; a prior FTA, especially a recent one, significantly slants the algorithm toward deeming the defendant high-risk.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gouldin |first=Lauryn P. |date=2018 |title=Defining Flight Risk |url=https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/02%20Gouldin_ART_SA%20%28JPM%29.pdf |journal=University of Chicago Law Review |volume=85 |pages=720}}</ref>