The Bail Reform Act of 1984 overturned the 1976 Supreme Court case of Burton v. South Carolina , which required that no defendant be kept in pretrial detention simply because they could not afford financial bail, and reinstated pretrial detention for indigent offenders.

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The Bail Reform Act of 1984 did not overturn a Supreme Court case called Burton v. South Carolina; no such case exists. The Act allowed for pretrial detention based on risk, not solely on financial inability to post bail.

The Bail Reform Act of 1984 Overturned the 1976 Supreme