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I don’t understand, also never been arrested/ bonded/arraigned before
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So, let’s say you get arrested and charged and your bond is set at $10,000. That means your options are to either give the court $10,000 and get to go out until your trial date, or you have to sit in jail until your trial. The $10,000 is Essentially a “I promise I’ll come back” payment. Because when you do show back up for your court date you get the money back from the court.
But, not many people have $10,000 cash lying around, so they use a Bonds company. Basically you sign an agreement with a company saying if they pay your bond for you, when you go to court they’ll get their money back and you’ll pay them back some extra.
This is how the systems normally operates, through established bond companies.
Not getting a bind means none of the bond companies actually trust you enough to show up in your court date and/or pay them back the extra.
So not being able to secure a bind essentially means those companies trust you less than the average criminals they deal with on a daily basis.
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