San Bruno County Bail Bonds

If a person is arrested in San Bruno, the person will be taken to jail and booked. The person may be given the option to get out of jail on a bail bond while he or she waits for the trial date. Bail is an amount of money that the court holds onto until the defendant has fulfilled his or her full obligation.

The bail rate is determined by a bail schedule that is used for all counties across the state of California, including San Bruno. This bail schedule is reviewed by a panel of judges on an annual basis. Each different offense has a different bail rate that is associated specifically with a particular offense.

In many cases, when a defendant is given the opportunity to get out of jail on bail, the defendant will use the service of a bail bonding company to help pay for the bail. A bail bonding company will provide funds for the full amount of the bail. In return, the bail bonding company will charge the defendant a small fee for its services, which is usually about ten percent of the total cost of the bail.

In addition to the non-refundable fee, the bail bonding agency will also require that the defendant provide assets that it may hold onto as collateral. If the defendant then fails to fulfill a legal obligation to the court, the bail bonding agency may collect on those assets in order to recover the lost money from the bail bond. After all, if the defendant fails to show up to court, the payee of the bail bond will not receive a refund of the bail amount that it had given to the courts for the release of the defendant.

If a defendant fails to show up in court or fulfill a legal obligation, the bail bonding agency may also use a bounty hunter to track the defendant down. The bounty hunter has the authorization to rearrest the defendant and return him or her to court to stand trial for the charges against him or her. The defendant may not have another opportunity to be released on bail after the first failure to appear.