What happens at an Arraignment Hearing? As a former Licensed Bail Bondsman [Bondsperson, Bondswoman], it was always one of the first questions that commonly came up for discussion with folks eager to bond their person of interest out of jail.
An Arraignment date set in an American Court of Law is the beginning of a new set of charges on a case. It’s not something to be taken lightly; lawyer up, address the issue forthright, and prepare yourself for whatever is coming.
For some, they will be tried after a series of hearings and case status update meetings. They may be found innocent after pleasing not guilty and found not guilty by a jury. Or, there could be other outcomes.
Smart Defendents who know they committed a crime can often plead for the mercy of a judge and enter a plea of Nolo Contendre to minimize out of pocket costs for a pricey Criminal Defense Attorney.
Attorneys defending criminals wear out their family’s pocketbooks. What they don’t take, a bondsman will. Namely items like cars, trucks, houses, apartments, condos, tiny or large plots of land, townhouses, boats, authentic jewelry, art, livestock, airplanes, antique furniture, you name it.
A Bondsman places their own money from a personal line of credit up to guarantee the court they will be paid if a Defendents choose to skip out on bail. Bail is the money placed with the court that they get to keep as penalty fee if the alleged criminal turned fleeing dependent misses a court hearing and or scheduled trial appearance.
Bonding creeps out of jail is not particularly fun, but often their family members are incredibly kind and truly interesting people. I trained under a gem of a professional who made sure to be great to folks who lost cash or property after bonding someone like their adult child out of jail.
The hardest repos to watch (collection of property pledged as collateral to secure the bond) were seeing people lose family heirlooms, homes, and vehicles. Many were resigned to letting stuff go — counting it the cost of buying their loved one’s freedom… celebrating the winsome quasi jailbreak moment and their part in ensuring it. Others? 80-90% of people were mad as hell at whoever jumped… with only 5% mad at us for insisting they honor the contract.
My Bail Bond Mentor was well known for handling multistate clients and for keeping multigenerational business. Families who crime professionally together or business professionals who employ knowingly career criminal type people greatly benefit from working with a trust capable and good natured bond professional as they have the ability to do things like extend time to find Skippy or to pay off money list to the person bonded out having jumped bail and skipped.
If you see a court file listing violent crime, stalking charges, or contempt of court with regard to willful violations of restraining orders, Bondsmen smile as do Criminal Defense Attorneys and State’s Attorneys. It means a legal game is afoot behind the scenes that includes Law Enforcement being more (rather than less) involved with whatever Misdemeanor Criminal Charge or Felony Charge list they are technically witnessing.
When victims of crime take back the Offender — doing things like changing testimony or refusing to assist in prosecution, those folks move in the mind of Law Enforcement from being innocent to enabling. When they behave in ways that show a judge they were serious filing complaint ie filing a request for a No Contact order or for a Restraining Order and the story doesn’t waiver? If they assist the court in providing accurate data about their own involvement and to give context about the Defendant’s behavior, Law Enforcement and Judges tend to take original offense and any subsequent aggression towards the Plaintiff seriously.
Once three or more guilty convictions come in on misdemeanor charges, states can add additional charges that convert the bulked misdemeanors to actual felony convictions. If you see the word repeated or charges filed for the same crime but on different dates bulked together, each charge will come with its own Arraignment.
While charges may be subsumed under one case number to consolidate paperwork, each still is read into the record as an incident with its own line notation and case number. Most bulked cases end up pled together for sets of similar charges and unique offenses are looked at stand alone for plea negotiations.
A plea deal with Nolo Contendre that has Victims Rights ignored is no bueno. A deal struck between court and Defendant that has the rights of victims placed front and center and the responsibility for self care squarely on the Criminal with unflinching oversight of the State is often the best possible outcome for everyone involved if a person arrested is not likely to commit any form of crime going forward from arraignment day in their lifetime — and a serious red flag simultaneously to prepare for future harms to occur if there’s any risk crime was not a one time thing.
Sociopaths will hurt people physically to get them to comply or to “teach someone a lesson”.
Psychopaths will hurt people for fun to alleviate tension and their own internal state of boredom.
Collapsed Psychopaths are vengeful.
Malignant Narcissists engage in complex smear campaigns that target prey.
And kids raised to commit crimes then to fake suicidal ideation to avoid criminal prosecution as adults? They tend to end up dead in 3-12 (statistically speaking) from the time of first arraignment where the outcome is catch and release.
Happy hunting, Officer Grumpy!
See also: Stalkerella, Stalkerbella
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