Bail Bondsmen in Baltimore City are constantly faced with many challenges on a daily basis. One of the most difficult aspects of the bail bonds business is satisfying our clients by successfully posting bail for a defendant before there bail review hearing. For those that do not know, all inmates that are arrested are given a bail by a district court commissioner and if they aren't bailed out by the following business-day they appear in front of a judge where their bond can be raised, lowered, or remain the same. Many families are concerned about bails being raised which put more pressure on the bondsman to make the bail happen before bail review time.
Unfortunately for Maryland Bail Bondsmen there are many factors that make dealing with bail review a nightmare. Recently, our Anne Arundel County Bail Bonds office had a client come in to bail out her son. Her son was arrested the previous day and she came in at approximately 9:30am the following day to do paperwork and arrange for the $25,000 bail to be posted. The cut-off time for bail to be posted in Anne Arundel County is 10:30am. The client finished everything with our Anne Arundel County Bail Bondsman by 10am which gave us roughly 30 minutes to post the bail before her son would be taken in front of a judge for bail review.
Our Glen Burnie Bail Bondsman successfully posted the bail in just 15 minutes after our client left our Anne Arundel County Bail Bonds office. You might be thinking that impeccable service was provided in this instance by Big Boyz Bail Bonds. The only problem that occurred was that even though the bail was posted they still took our clients son to his bail review hearing. At the hearing, our client's son was released on his own recognizance. Since the defendant was released at bail review our client demanded our paperwork be canceled and asked for a refund. Unfortunately since the bond was paid prior to bail review we were unable to give her a refund.
One might think that this is unfair for our client. From the perspective of a customer it is undoubtedly unfair. However, for a bail bondsman, what are we to do? Our job is to provide prompt and reliable service. Bail Bondsmen are not mind readers. What if the bail was raised to $100,000 prior to us posting the bail? Then our client would be even more upset to have to pay more money. Bail Review is nothing but a catch 22 for a Maryland Bail Bondsman.
In Baltimore City we had a customer that wanted to bail someone out on a $2,600 bond. We had a Baltimore City Bail Bondsmen at central booking from 8:30am all the way up until the time we were finally given the go ahead by the records department to post the bail at 12:55pm. The only problem aside from having to wait for the jail to give us our paperwork after 4 hours of waiting was that they took the defendant to bail review at 12:45pm. At the bail review hearing the judge raised the bail to $75,000. Unfortunately, this was too high for our customer to post and even though we were there and ready to post the bail at $2,600 the jail was not ready with the paperwork for us to be able to post it.
