When an individual is arrested and does not have cash at hand to pay the entire bail ordered by the court, a bail bond serves as a great savior because it lets the accused go home during the pendency ...

Last April, Raad Almansoori was booked in an Orlando jail and charged with assaulting and sexually battering a woman and then stealing her car. When Orlando’s 9th Circuit prosecutors dropped all but ...

What happens in probable cause court sets the pace of a criminal case, with Harris County magistrates setting bonds for dozens of defendants in one sitting. The magistrate — an appointed lawyer rather ...