You can always depend on knowledgeable agents at Murray Bail Bonds to assist you in a professional, confidential and honest manner when getting your friends, family, or yourself out of jail.

How Bail Works
When an individual is arrested for a crime, the person is typically taken to a local detention facility for booking prior to incarceration in a lock-up station or county jail. Once arrested and booked, the defendant has several options for release pending the conclusion of his/her case.

The Bail system is designed to guarantee the timely appearance of a defendant in court. Bail is also a guarantee policy for the state that the defendant will appear to face charges. Further, the legal intent of release on Bail is not to relieve the defendant of obligations, it is the retention of control over the defendant to the end that justice might be administered.

If the defendant "skips", the cosigner is then responsible for the full amount of the bail. If the defendant is located within a certain amount of time and arrested by the bail enforcement agent the cosigner is then only responsible for all expenses the bail agent incurs while looking for the defendant. If you have questions regarding posting a bail bond for an inmate please call us 24 hours and speak directly with an agent.

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Bail Bond Facts!

Bail is something deposited with a court to obtain the release of an arrested person to ensure that the person will appear to stand trial.

In many states, bail is insurance, contract agreed to by two parties underwritten on the basis of financial charts. In some states, the contract for bail is based on property rather than insurance.

Bail is guaranteed by the 8th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution. The founding fathers laid the basis for the Bail Industry in our Bill of Rights.

In 1998, private bail managed more than 2.5 million people through the criminal justice system in United States.

Private bail produces the appearance of more than 93% of its clients in court at time of trial and more that 99% ultimately. The Bail Agent is personally and financially responsible to the court.

Private bail helps keep our court systems running efficiently ensuring appearance.

Bail operates at no cost to the taxpayers. It is the original public/private partnership.

The authority of the states in which they operate licenses bail agents. While laws in each state may vary, there are specific criteria agents must meet in order to retain their licenses.

Recovery Agents are non-licensed independent agents. They specialize in the retrieval of "Skips", persons who have skipped bail, part of the one percent above.




 

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Glossary
BAIL FORFEITURE: When the court orders the bail forfeited, the bail agent has a certain amount of time to produce the defendant back in court, or prove that he can't because the defendant is dead or in jail somewhere else.

BAIL RECOVERY AGENT: A person of suitable age and discretion authorized by the bail agent in writing to arrest and surrender the defendant. These, overwhelmingly, are people with either police background and/or training. Private investigators, retired sheriffs, retired FBI agents and other trained professionals do this sort of work. The threat of civil litigation has taken the wild west attitude out of bail recovery work.

COLLATERAL: Something of value either pledged as security or turned over to the bail agent to hold onto until the bond is exonerated. This could be a lien on a piece of real estate, a car, jewelry, cash, or just about anything else of value. Most reputable bail agents no longer accept firstborn children as collateral.

COSIGNER(S): A person or people who sign a contract with the bondsman stating they will pay any expenses the bondsman incurs returning the defendant to court if the defendant fails to appear. The cosigners are also responsible for payment of the bond premium.

EXONERATION: When the court declares the bond exonerated, the bondsman is released from his guarantee that the defendant will appear in court. The collateral should be returned to the cosigner at this time if no money is due the bail agent. Exonerations usually happen when the case is decided (defendant found guilty or not guilty), but can be done anytime the judge feels the bail bond is no longer necessary to assure the appearance by the defendant in court.

FAILURE TO APPEAR: What happens when the defendant does not make it to court on the date and time ordered by the court? Once the court determines that there is a failure to appear by the defendant, they must forfeit the bail.

SKIP: Fail to appear with the intent to flee justice. Some failures to appear are accidental without fleeing. Skips involve a person who believes they can evade justice by making their friends and family (cosigners) pay the court the bail. Thankfully for justice (and the cosigners), the amount of skips who succeed are few and far between. The bail agents and the bail recovery agents they hire are much better at finding a person than that person is at fleeing justice.

SURRENDER: Returning somebody to the custody of the court (jail) in order to get the bond exonerated. The bondsman can surrender anybody they have out on bond at any time they want. This usually only happens if the defendant has failed to appear. If the bail agent believes somebody is going to skip bond, they can surrender them before they fail to appear.

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