Maryland Bail Bonds Blog

Many bail bondsmen, particularly in Baltimore City, will advertise to their clients that they are the quickest bail bonds posters in town. Almost all of them are lying to your face. It is important to understand that there are many factors that may come into play which slow down the process.

To understand what we mean you have to take into consideration the "underground-nature" of this business. It is quite possible, that when you are dealing with a Baltimore City Bail Bondsman you are dealing with someone who is not even licensed to post bail bonds in Maryland. As a client considering a bail bonds company for hire ask to see their bail bonds license.

When you have paid a bail bondsman to post your bail, ask them if a bail agent from their respective company will be taking care of the bond. The reason that we are informing you of this is so you can realize that once a bail bondsman lures you in under the illusion of being the "Quickest Maryland Bail Bondsman" they have no intention of posting the bond themselves. Rather, they are calling the bail in to a separate office that then has to call the bail into a licensed bail agent who has no affiliation with the company you paid the bond with.

You might now be asking, what's wrong with this? Well simply the bail agent called to post your bail does not care if your bail gets posted right away or 6 hours from the time he gets the call. He might not even answer the phone call from the secretary calling the bail into him. The bail agent might find it more convenient to grab a coffee first, or say hi and chat to a girlfriend, or find a delectable chicken box off Monument Street to snack on. This simple fact could delay your friend or loved one from getting released for several hours.

When using Big Boyz Bail Bonds to post bail you can be assured that you are always dealing with a licensed bail agent and a contracted employee of this company will always personally handle your bail. We do not call the bail into another party to wait for them to post the bail. If you want to see for yourself and follow our agent to the respective location to post the bail we'd be more than happy to show you. And when we have a bail for Baltimore County and it's after the 8:00pm cut-off time we still post the bail and drop the release the following morning by 8:00am when the jail re-opens. We do not wait for a random bail agent to wake up from his slumber to waltz into the Towson Commissioners at whatever time he pleases.

There has been much attention devoted in this election to the heated race for Baltimore City States Attorney between Pat Jessamy and Gregg Bernstein. Many people have criticized Pat Jessamy's tenure in office and have demanded a change to help get Baltimore City back on track.

Maryland's most legitimate bail bonds company proudly supports and congratulates Gregg Bernstein on his election to the very tough and important position to the Baltimore City community. In a recent question and answer session prior to the election both candidates were asked the following question:

Q. If you could reinvent or "fix" three things in the criminal justice system -- in the State's Attorney's Office or elsewhere -- what would they be?

Mr. Bernstein: First, and foremost, I would focus prosecutor resources on violent crime. Things aren't going to turn around until law enforcement gets a handle on the relatively small number of violent, dangerous people who literally have been getting away with murder.

Second, I would create a State's Attorney's Office that has competitive salaries and programs for training and mentoring young lawyers that attract the best and the brightest law school graduates.

Third, I would improve the witness protection program to better protect victims and witnesses who feel threatened. As State's Attorney, I will work with law enforcement to identify and offer protection proactively to victims and witnesses at high risk of intimidation. I will not wait for witnesses to ask for protection but do everything I can to insure that witnesses at high risk are offered meaningful protection.

Ms. Jessamy: First, I would eliminate the bail bond system and allow for a process in which 10 percent cash is paid to the courts; individuals would get back the money posted (minus administrative costs) when they appear for trial or their cases are complete.

Second, I would increase the penalty for criminal cases which entitle individuals to a jury trial. The number of misdemeanor jury trials continues to rise and account for tremendous resource usage at the circuit court level. Reducing this number is a priority.

Third, working with the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), I would create an efficient system within the BPD to notify officers of their court dates, with computerized acknowledgement of receipt of the notice. I would recommend a fine or some form of discipline for officers who fail to appear for trials where they are necessary and essential witnesses.

As you can see, Jessamy is primarily concerned with eliminating the bail bond system from our criminal justice system. Someone in the position of Baltimore City States Attorney office should know and understand that Baltimore could not survive without a bail bonds system. The only way this would be feasible is if taxes were increased to build new jails hire more correctional officers etc. which affects much of the state financially in a poor economy.

Posting 10% only to the courts means that many people would be forced to remain in jail until their court date. Also, for those people able to post bail (such as family members) will not be as concerned with making sure defendants appear for court if their loved one is possibly looking at significant jail time.

We can however see why Jessamy wants to see the bail bonds system change. This is most likely due to the fact that so many bondsmen are taking advantage of the courts processing the bails and the families trying to get their friends or family members out on bond. As his been mentioned in this blog again and again, there are far more rogue bail bondsman than legitimate so it is important to discover a way to weed these so-called "bondsmen" out of the system as a whole. One day, elite bail bonds companies hope that this will come to fruition.