San Benito Bail Bond Fees

I was arrested in San Benito and released on bail. I was arrested again in San Francisco and released on a much higher bail for the same thing. Why?

Your question is actually quite common when it comes to bail. Each county has the same assumptive bail rate in California, meaning that each county in California starts at approximately the same amount when determining bail. However, once you are arrested, the judge will review your case individually and take into account past arrests as well as the unique circumstances of this arrest.

If you were arrested in San Benito for a penal code violation and released on bail, as long as you showed up to court and served your sentence, if you were convicted, then the court will look favorably on your behavior. Of course, the court will not look favorably on the fact that you committed a penal code violation. However, the court will see that you were compliant in that situation.

When the court sees that you have been arrested again for the same crime, the court will see that your behavior has not been changed. As such, the court will look unfavorably on your situation. When a judge goes about factoring a bail amount, he will take this second offense of the same crime into consideration and it will be a mark against you.

The good news is that because you showed up to court to stand trial for the first offense, the judge will have every reason to believe that you will show up to court to stand trial for the second offense. As such, you will probably have a lower bail amount than you could otherwise have. However, because you committed the same crime twice, your bail will naturally increase.

The judge will also take into consideration the nature of the crime when he goes about setting your bail amount. If the crime was any different the second time around, then the judge may take into consideration any additional penal code violations that you could have committed. For example, if you are taken into jail for a drug offense, then the judge might also be interested in whether or not you were selling, using or buying. The judge might also want to know if you crossed state lines with drugs, if you were in a speeding vehicle with drugs, or if there were firearms present. All of these factors will be considered when the judge decides whether or not to release you from custody while you await your trial.