San Diego Bail Bonds Can Help To Secure Release From Custody

الجمعة، 8 فبراير 2019

By Martha Reed


No society can function without certain laws and regulations that are in place to ensure that order prevails. Law enforcement agencies are there to make sure that these laws are honored. Those that break the law are arrested and charged. Eventually, they will be tried in a court of law. Those arrested are placed into custody, but they cannot be kept there indefinitely. Thankfully, with San Diego bail bonds many of those arrested can be released again until they are tried.

Thousands of people are arrested every year and most of them are ordinary people that took unnecessary chances such as driving while drunk, getting involved in altercations or doing foolish things such as lying to the tax man. However, every arrest should be viewed in the most serious light possible. It can lead to a criminal record. Anyone arrested for committing a crime is best advised to immediately hire an experienced lawyer.

There is no way in which every arrested person can be kept incarcerated until his case can be heard. Most of them are therefore released until their cases can be heard. However, the court must be satisfied that the accused will adhere to the conditions of release. These normally include a ban on travel, a strict admonition to refrain from interfering in the case and sometimes a requirement to report to a police station regularly.

In most cases, the release of an arrested person is subject to the payment of a specified amount to serve as surety that he will stick to the conditions of his release. This amount differs. It is refunded after the case is heard, regardless whether the accused is found guilty or not. If the accused cannot raise the money to be posted, he can still approach a bondsman.

There is a hefty price to pay for the quick and efficient service offered by bondsmen. They charge services fees that can be as high as fifteen percent of the amount borrowed by the accused. This can be a very high amount. The payback schedule for this fee is stipulated in a contract that the accused have to sign before the surety is paid over to the court. The loan amount must be covered by pledging assets.

Sadly and understandably, most people borrowing money from bondsmen do not read the contracts that they have to sign. They are stressed and just want to be able to go home, so they sign. It is only later that they realize that the terms and conditions are extremely restrictive. The slightest infringement can cause seizure of their assets. The best thing to do is to leave all dealings with the bondsmen to the lawyer.

Breaking the conditions of release is a very serious matter. All the money paid as surety to the court will be forfeited. The accused may be arrested again and the court will be less inclined to grant a second release. Additional charges will be filed against the accused and he may be forced to apply for a second loan from the bondsmen. It is definitely not worth it to take any chances whatsoever.

The practice of releasing arrested individuals has its critics. However, it is a constitutional right to be deemed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. It would not be just to keep every accused locked up until his case can finally be tried, often only months after the initial arrest.




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