When criminal defendants are released from prison, some are “bonded out” while others are “bailed out.” If you consume enough criminal news, the two terms start to look interchangeable, as though they both mean the same thing.
While they both have the same effect — temporary freedom — they’re actually different. The difference between bond and bail is a subtle one, but it ultimately comes down to the . Who and what is securing the defendant’s freedom?
As you likely know, bail is the monetary amount a defendant must pay to secure his release. If he fails to appear at a specified time, he forfeits that amount.
If the defendant or his family pays bail, he’s been bailed out of jail.
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Simi Valley attorney Russell Takasugi was taken into custody Wednesday after police said they unearthed evidence he looted another estate.
A search warrant was executed Wednesday morning in connection with a series of new felony charges, and as a courtesy, Simi Valley police alerted Takasugi that he was to be arrested, said Lt. Stephanie Shannon.
Takasugi turned himself in after learning a warrant was out for his arrest.
The 57-year-old son of late Assemblyman and Oxnard Mayor Nao Takasugi is being held on charges of grand theft, forgery and an enhancement, said Takasugi’s lawyer, Ron Bamieh. Ba
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A Queens businessman who once gave Congressman Gregory Meeks $40,000 is negotiating a plea deal with federal authorities in Brooklyn, according to court records obtained by The Post.
The “extensive plea negotiations” are scheduled to stretch into the end of February, leaving some to wonder if Meeks pal and Guyanese-born developer Edul Ahmad is helping the feds with other targets.
“That’s a lot of time to negotiate a plea,” said a New York criminal lawyer not connected with the case. “The feds must think there are bigger fish they can catch.”
Ahmad was arrested last July on charges of operating a $50 million mortgage-fraud scheme in Queens. He faces a maximum of 30 years in jail. He is out on
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Jerry Dyer told a federal jury Friday that during his decade as Fresno’s police chief, only two officers have faced disciplinary actions for shooting someone with a gun – and those were personal, domestic-related incidents.
Every other shooting under Dyer’s watch, including the one that’s at the center of a wrongful-death trial continuing in U.S. District Court in Fresno, was found to be justified, the chief said.
The attorneys representing the family of Steven Anthony Vargas both maintain that his October 2009 shooting death was not only unjustified, but is part of a pattern of unjustified shootings by Fresno police during Dyer’s tenure as chief.
Dyer bristled at the contention. “
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Flamboyant as usual, Sacramento defense attorney Linda Parisi made her way up and down the courthouse elevator Friday between two cases that seemingly placed her on opposite sides of the First Amendment.
In the morning on the third floor, the bangled Parisi argued for more than a half-hour to keep the press and public out of pretrial hearings in a sensational murder case that’s on the cusp of going to trial after 31 years.
In the early afternoon on the second floor, Parisi appeared in another courtroom as part of a team of lawyers who are basing their defense of dozens of Occupy Sacramento protesters on grounds that the city has trampled on their free speech rights.
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