1% Bail Reviews

1% Bail Reviews!  Maryland law mandates that your bond must be reviewed by the court by the next court session following your arrest.  Having an attorney exponentially increases your likelihood of release.  If we cannot reduce your bond by amount of our fee, then there is no fee for the bond hearing.  Call Now. 410-286-1220 

Example: 

Neumann Noluck is arrested for disorderly conduct on Saturday night.  After seeing the commissioner, he is held over on bond, and committed to the local jail until Monday, when he will see a judge regarding his bond.

Neumann Noluck’s Bond:                   $100,000.00

You have two choices:

1. Post the bond, which in most cases means contracting with a surety (bondsman), and paying a fee (max 10% of the gross bond), which you do not get back, but you will be released within hours of posting bond.

Usually Bondsman’s fee (10%), you pay:                   $10,000.00; or,

1. Wait until bail review, and engage 1% Bond Review Attorney and you are released or your bond is reduced, and you pay the reduced bondsman’s fee. 

Using 1% Bond Review Attorney Fee, you pay:                      $ 1,000.00 (max fee)

Possible Result(s):

1. If RELEASED, you saved:                                                            $9,000.00
2. If your bond was reduced to $50,000.00, then

                                                                                                  i.      Usually Bondsman’s fee (10%):    $ 5,000.00;

                                                                                                ii.      1% Bond Review Attorney Fee:    $ 1,000.00;     

You saved:                                                      $4,000.00

If your bond is not reduced, then there is no attorney fee for your bail review representation.

Our maximum fee for any bond hearing is $1,000 (minimum fee is $500).  An attorney-client relationship is not established until the flat fee is agreed upon and paid.  This flat fee service is related to the bail review hearing only.  This fee is earned at the time of the attorney’s appearance before the court.  If the bond is not reduced, the flat fee for the bond hearing will be applied to the attorney’s fee for representation in the pending related criminal trial, if the defendant so choses to retain said attorney.  Any refund of an earned fee will be at the sole and unfettered discretion of the attorney.  This flat fee for the bail review hearing is not contingent upon any outcome.  Richard A. Simmons, Esq. is neither affiliated with nor can recommend any surety or bondsman.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE  
TITLE 5.  RELEASE  
SUBTITLE 2.  PRETRIAL RELEASE

Md. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Code Ann. § 5-203  (2012)

§ 5-203. Bail bonds in circuit courts 


   (a) Circuit court rules. --

   (1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a circuit court may adopt rules setting the terms and conditions of bail bonds filed in that court and rules on the qualifications of and fees charged by bail bondsmen.

   (2) Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, if expressly authorized by the court, a defendant or a private surety acting for the defendant may post a bail bond by executing it in the full penalty amount and depositing with the clerk of court the greater of 10% of the penalty amount or $ 25.

   (3) A bail bond commissioner may be appointed to carry out rules adopted under this section.

   (4) A violation of a rule adopted under this section is contempt of court and shall be punished in accordance with Title 15, Chapter 200 of the Maryland Rules.

   (5) A person may not engage in the business of becoming a surety for compensation on bail bonds in criminal cases unless the person is:

      (i) approved in accordance with any rules adopted under this section; and

      (ii) if required under the Insurance Article, licensed in accordance with the Insurance Article.

(b) Seventh Judicial Circuit. --

   (1) In the circuit courts in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, a bail bondsman approved under subsection (a) of this section shall pay a license fee of 1% of the gross value of all bail bonds written in all courts of the circuit, if the feeis approved by the court of the county in which it applies.

   (2) The fee shall be paid to the court as required by the rules of court and shall be used to pay the expenses of carrying out this section.

   (3) Any absolute bail bond forfeitures collected may be used to pay the expenses of carrying out this section.

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