State v. Bail Bonds USA

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing forfeiture where the defendant was in federal custody on an immigration violation at the time of the missed hearing
• “It is clear that transfer to federal custody followed by deportation does not by itself excuse nonappearance.”
• “This case is different from Pima County Bond because the defendant has not been deported, but remains in federal custody.”
• surety has burden to “show by a preponderance of the evidence an excuse or explanation for [the defendant’s] failure to appear”
• a defendant was “released on bond” into federal custody because the defendant “would not have been released into federal custody but for the Surety’s act of posting bond”
• a court’s discretion must be exercised “in furtherance of governing law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).