How a Houston Criminal Court may reduce a bond in a theft case.
July 22, 2008
In a lot of instances a court will initially set a very high amount in a theft case. For example, if the value of the alleged property that was stolen is one hundred thousand ($100,000) the court will routinely double that amount and set the bond at two hundred thousand ($200,000). However, if you hire a lawyer before raising the money to bond the person out of jail the lawyer should be able to go to the court and have the bond reduced to a more reasonable amount. In the above scenerio a lawyer would be able to save you thousands of dollars when making a bond. Typically, a bonding company will charge you a 10% fee for bonding someone out of jail. The two hundred thousand dollar bond will cost you twenty thousand dollars and the one hundred thousand dollar bond will cost you ten thousand dollars. Thus, hiring an experienced criminal attorney will pay for themselves by getting the bond reduced in addition to all the other things they can do for you.
Here is a recent example of what I mean….http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5900226.html
