Court of Appeals of Arizona· 9/26/2002

State v. Old West Bonding Co.

Citations

56 P.3d 42
203 Ariz. 468
383 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 32
2002 Ariz. App. LEXIS 152

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noting that time between defendant’s non- appearance and forfeiture hearing gives the surety “an opportunity to avoid or mitigate the forfeiture” by finding and surrendering the defendant or presenting other mitigating circumstances
not possible to catalog all circumstances that might bear on court's discretionary decision whether and in what amount to forfeit appearance bond
when a defendant is absent “due to incarceration,” that is merely one factor in deciding whether the absence was excused under Criminal Rule 7.4(c)(4)
“[t]o give meaningful effect to both” subsections of rule, one of which used “shall” and the other “may,” court “construe[d] the word ‘may’ . . . as having its usual discretionary meaning”

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Judges: Hall, Ehrlich, Barker

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