United States v. Rafael Santiago, Appeal of Esther Cruz

How courts have described this case

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• applying civil dead- line to surety’s appeal of forfeiture of bail bond: “a bail bond is a civil contractual agreement between the government and the surety on behalf of the criminal defendant”
• forfeiture justified by defendant’s violation of condition of his release by again engaging in drug trafficking, notwithstanding the fact that defendant made all his court appearances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).