The bill changes the proposed rules associated with pretrial detention. If a young person has been charged with a serious offence--and murder would certainly be classified as a serious offence--because the possible sentence for an adult is in excess of five years, then the young person can be detained without relying on the presumption of whether he would be put in custody at the end of the day, which was one of the problems for the Nunn Commission. He would be detained if he posed a risk to society—and if there were some suggestion that he was going to continue to be aggressive and stab people, that test would certainly be met—and if there were no sets of conditions that would limit that particular tendency towards violence.
On May 11th, 2010. See this statement in context.