bail and pretrial release - courts.ca.govlabor intensive & complex for the courts 1305(b) (bail...
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POP QUIZ!
The defendant, is charged with first degree robbery after taking money from a person who had just withdrawn cash from an ATM machine. You, the judge, have decided to deny him release on his own recognizance and set bail.
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Bail Cost for Robbery and Domestic Violence
Robbery (1st) Domestic Violence (273.5)
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Bail Realities
Racial and Ethnic Disparities
▪African American and Latino defendants are more likely to be detained pretrial than are white defendants.
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Bail Realities
Who Pays the Bond Premium?
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Which Defendants Post Bail?
• Violent Offenses
• 16% were released pretrial
• 68% of those released secured release by posting bail
• High-level Felonies
• 21.7% secured release pretrial
• 63% of those secured release by posting bail
Labor Intensive & Complex for the Courts
▪ 1305(b) (bail agent relieved of obligations if court clerk fails to mail notice forfeiture satisfying statute within 30 days)
▪ 1305 (c)(1) If the defendant appears either voluntarily or in custody after surrender or arrest in court within 180 days of the date of forfeiture or within 180 days of the date of mailing of the notice if the notice is required under subdivision (b), the court shall, on its own motion at the time the defendant first appears in court on the case in which the forfeiture was entered, direct the order of forfeiture to be vacated and the bond exonerated.
▪ 1305.4 Notwithstanding Section 1305, the surety insurer, the bail agent, the surety, or the depositor may file a motion, based upon good cause, for an order extending the 180-day period provided in that section.
▪ 1306(c) & (f) (bail agent relieved of obligations if summary judgment is not entered against bondsman within 90 days; right to enforcement forfeiture judgment expires after two years),
▪ 1308(b) (clerk must serve notice of forfeiture judgment within five days).
An Example:
California Department of Insurance (2012-13)
▪1500 Forfeitures
▪32 Collected
▪$51,000,000 premiums
▪$588,095 collected (agent & “build up fund”)
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Who is accountable?
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More Bail Realities
Increased Reliance on Economic Bail
U.S. Department of Justice Report (2007)
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19 Counties Have Jail Caps
Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Fresno, Kern, Kings , Los Angeles, Merced, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Stanislaus, Tulare, Yolo
• In re Kenneth Humphrey (2018)
• Riana Buffin et al v. City & County of San Francisco (D.N.D. Cal., Oct. 28, 2015) No. 4:15-cv-04959
Examines Equal Protection and Due Process clauses and asks whether “the
Any Others?Federal Litigation in California
Welchen v. County of Sacramento(D.N.D. CA., Oct. 10, 2016)
Rodriguez-Ziese v. Hennessy(D.N.D.CA., Nov. 7, 2017)
No. 5:17-cv-06473
Coleman v. Hennessy(D.N.D.CA., Nov. 8, 2017) No. 3:17-cv-06503-EMC
Reem v. Hennessy (D.N.D.CA., Nov. 16, 2017)
No. 3:17-cv-06628-CRB
Arevalo v. Hennessy(D.N.D.CA., Nov. 20, 2017)
No. 17-cv-06676-HSG; and 9th Cir. Court of Appeals, Dec. 27, 2017)
California State Litigation
In re Bettie Webb on Habeas CorpusCalifornia Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Div. 1, Case No. D07280 Supreme Court of California, Case No. S247074
Have other jurisdictions limited or eliminated the use of commercial bail?
▪ Federally, the US Government uses Risk Assessment
Recently…
▪ Washington DC (1963)
▪ New Jersey (2017)
▪ Kentucky (1976)
▪ New Mexico (2016)