Questions tagged [bail]
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What is the intent of Donald Trump's $200k bond?
As a non-American I was trying to understand the idea behind bail in the US and it seems to be a monetary deterrent large enough to make you go to court (assuming that you care about the money), but without crippling your life until then.
Donald…
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"Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't apply to bail?
How does the law reconcile the "innocent until proven guilty" principle with the treatment of those awaiting trial on criminal charges?
At least in the U.S., it seems like there is a meta-criminal-justice system in which merely being accused of a…
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Does pre-trial detention exist only because of a resources constraint?
A lot of people are talking about alternatives to cash bail recently, which made me wonder, why does pre-trial detention exist in the first place?
My layman's understanding of pre-trial detention is that it's a kind of "buffer" or a necessary evil.…
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When will desuetude apply to Julian Assange's bail violation in U.K. law?
In most legal systems, there is a timeout after that a crime can't be punished any more. It is desuetude.
Currently, Julian Assange can't leave the Equadorian Embassy of the U.K., because he will be arrested for bail violation.
His previous charges…
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What charges could be legally justified for climbing a public building?
A man scaled the Elizabeth Tower and hung a Palestine flag yesterday, resulting in much public disruption. Finally, around midnight, he allowed himself to be brought down and was arrested and brought to a hospital for treatment, and then a police…
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When can biometrics be re-taken when a person appears at a police station to answer police bail?
Supposing a person was arrested, their biometric data collected pursuant to the arrest, and then released on police bail, ordered to re-attend a police office on a specified date.
At this subsequent appointment, when or why would the police be…
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Does a bail-jumper have any recourse from being apprehended with the help of illegally obtained information?
Say that a person is a bail-jumper, that is, someone who fails to appear in court after being let out on bail. If they are apprehended by a bail bondsman with the help of illegally obtained information, do they have any sort of recourse?
To give a…
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Is Patty Mayo's Youtube content legal?
I've recently been watching a youtuber by the name of "Patty Mayo". He arrests people who fail bond payments or fail to appear in court.
I've seen "Cops" before, but this guy doesn't blur faces and lists the fugitive's full name and on what charges…
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How does a bail bondsman provide bail bond payment to a court?
In reading this question: Difference between bail and bail bond?, it raises the question in my mind on how a bail bondsman pays the court for a specific bail bond instance. They obviously are well versed in this process, and probably do bail…
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Can defendants arraigned in federal court sometimes be "out on bail" secretly with no way for the public to know about or verify the bail?
In this answer to my Politics SE question *Is former president Trump "out on bail" as Chris Christie asserts? If so, were campaign funds used? which ends:
Bail is a particular type of bond in which the defendant submits an upfront payment that will…
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Why is Julian Assange in jail?
Further to another question asked on these boards:
Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks for jumping bail on 1 May 2019
Presumably, his jail term began immediately upon sentencing, in which case he finished serving his sentence 68+ weeks ago.
He…
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Why is the bond for a $500 fraud identical to that for a more than $20 000 fraud?
This man who was much advertised on the internet (see the links) has 19 charges, the bond for each of them being set to $40 000. The question is why, as long as some charges are for frauds ranging from $100 to $500 while others for frauds above $20…
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Is it legal (but maybe "unprecedented") for the prosecution to "judge shop" to re-arrest someone on the same charges?
It's been said that the recent re-arrest of an FBI informant on the same charges is "unprecedented", in particular because it was done by going to a different judge than the original magistrate who released him, so a form "judge shopping" for the…
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What is the difference, if any at all, between having a warrant for your arrest and being circulated as wanted in the UK?
What does it mean to have a warrant out for one's arrest?
How must a warrant be issued?
What institutions within society are able to issue a warrant?
What does it mean to be circulated to police bodies as 'wanted'? Is it completely synonymous as…
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Difference between bail and bail bond?
On a TV show recently I heard the judge say:
"Bail is set at 15 million dollars, 5 million dollar bond".
What does this mean? I am familiar with a bail amount, but is this a total of 20 million dollars in two different collateral forms payable to…
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