Hi, this Ray Hrdlicka with BidMyBail. We are sitting here today in the studios of Crime, Justice and America to talk about bail bonds. So the question is what is a bail bond? Very simply, a bail bond is how you can get, obviously yourself or somebody else, released from custody. In the United States of course, we are all presumed innocent until found guilty so we have right to bail by the Eighth amendment and it’s not unreasonable bail as defined by our Constitution of course. Right, so a bail bond is used to get somebody out of jail. Well, actually let’s take a step back one second, let’s talk about the ways to get out of jail and bail bonding being the third. Okay, first well let’s use an example here it’s real easy to understand then. ,000 bond anywhere in the country, ,000 bond, you can take down ,000 cash, take it down to the sheriff’s office, the jail, the Department of Corrections, given it to them, as long as you’re not convicted of course, give it to them, and you’re going to get released from jail. You got appear in court, and at the end of the court case, get your ,000 back. The other way to do it is if you have property, equity in the property. Takes a long time to do this. You got to get a preliminary title report, You got to get an appraisal. It takes time, you usually have to hire an attorney to go in and do it. So, not many people do that except on very large bonds. The third way, getting out of jail with commercial bail. Now commercial bail, either private bail bondsman or surety bail bondsman. Private bail bondsman use their own money, they put it up, you pay them a fee, the same as surety bail bonds, but the surety bail bondsman puts up a piece of paper from an insurance company. It’s an actual bond, okay, and that is the promise to have that person in custody, excuse me, that person who was in custody, in court for all the court appearances or else the bondsman is going to pay that ,000. So let’s look at surety for a second. That word surety. Surety is a third-party, unrelated, obviously unrelated in this particular case of a bail bondsman, an unrelated third party is responsible for the performance of somebody and that is the person in jail appearing in court. All right, so that’s what a bail bond is. The bail bondsman is responsible for you to appear in court. He takes that responsibility on. Why does he do that? Very simply, for a fee. That’s commercial bail. It’s private enterprise and that fee is why they assume that risk. So that’s the definition of bail bonds, not the intent of the bail bonds, okay, that’s how bail bonds work in today’s system. All right, now check back with us in future videos for the best way to get a bail bond, or the little things you need to do to make sure that you can get a bail bond. This is Ray Hrdlicka, saying goodbye, talk to you again.
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