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Bond Factors: Length of Residence in the Community

By Baker Associates

As promised in our previous criminal law blog, this and upcoming articles will focus on some of the factors courts look at when deciding whether or not to release a defendant on bail and how high to set the bail amount. The purpose of requiring a defendant to post bond is to allow the defendant to avoid having to sit in jail until the court date while ensuring that he or she will return to court when required to answer for the charges that have been levied against him or her. Thus, the court will basically look at whether or not the defendant is a risk to the community or a risk to skip town and not show up for court. One factor that plays a large role in this assessment is how long the defendant has lived in the community.

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).