Its just setting down a sort of “security deposit” and promising to go to the court date, and they’ll take your money if you don’t show up to court and also issue a warrant for your arrest. You still have to face a trial.
If you are considered “dangerous”, they could deny letting you go on bail.
So not really a whole lot of “chaos”. It’s actually a good thing to let people go if they a haven’t been convicted of a crime yet. Cuz keeping innocent people (cuz that’s what they are before a conviction) in custody is injustice.
There are also laws about who can post bail for you. My understanding is that they need to either have an actual relationship with you or be a licensed bondsman. Either be someone who can guilt you into going to court or who will hire a bounty hunter to haul you in.
(And bail bonds are unfair bullshit, but that’s a different thing.)
I don’t think this is a thing. The court could reject you if you’re suspicious, but I don’t think there are laws saying “you need a blood relationship to post bail for someone”
I haven’t a clue what the rules are but I don’t think anybody was suggesting you had to have a blood relationship to bail someone out. I think they were suggesting you have to know the person, be a friend or colleague or have some kind of connection to them as opposed to some stranger just walking in and bailing out random people like I suggested in my original post
FYI: Bail is not a get out of jail free card
Its just setting down a sort of “security deposit” and promising to go to the court date, and they’ll take your money if you don’t show up to court and also issue a warrant for your arrest. You still have to face a trial.
If you are considered “dangerous”, they could deny letting you go on bail.
So not really a whole lot of “chaos”. It’s actually a good thing to let people go if they a haven’t been convicted of a crime yet. Cuz keeping innocent people (cuz that’s what they are before a conviction) in custody is injustice.
There are also laws about who can post bail for you. My understanding is that they need to either have an actual relationship with you or be a licensed bondsman. Either be someone who can guilt you into going to court or who will hire a bounty hunter to haul you in.
(And bail bonds are unfair bullshit, but that’s a different thing.)
I don’t think this is a thing. The court could reject you if you’re suspicious, but I don’t think there are laws saying “you need a blood relationship to post bail for someone”
Now court could reject bailing-out someone is BLANKING BS! If it is true, then must be removed!
Blood relationship requirement is just not true.
I haven’t a clue what the rules are but I don’t think anybody was suggesting you had to have a blood relationship to bail someone out. I think they were suggesting you have to know the person, be a friend or colleague or have some kind of connection to them as opposed to some stranger just walking in and bailing out random people like I suggested in my original post