I know of a guy who shot his father over the weekend, was charged with the following: first-degree assault, a class B felony, wanton endangerment, and a class D felony, yet is apparantly NOT in jail (and was even back to work yesterday)! How can that be? Could his dad have dropped the charges? Or do there HAVE to be charges in a shooting?
2007-01-23 05:03:58 · 7 answers · asked by dani_maries 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
The US Constitution allows for every citizen incarcerated, the opportunity to be released from jail through a bond system. The bond being a cash or property bond worth a value equal to the bond established. A bond is merely a monetary amount set to insure you appear in court after "posting bond."
An example would be....you are arrested for a crime...you go to jail. You decide you don't want to stay in jail and pay a specific amount of money (bond) to get out. If you fail to appear in court...you forfeit the bond. Most bond is set at amount at a reasonable level where one would have to reconsider the idea of not going to court.
There are professional bonds, property bonds, signature bonds, and cash bonds.
Those charges against this "guy" are felony charges which should go before a Grand Jury where if they find sufficient evidence exists to prosecute, they will "true bill" or indict this person where he will be rearrested with a new bond amount set!
2007-01-23 05:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by KC V ™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes the District Attorney doesn't file after we put somebody away until they have time to look over the reports.
Another possibility as they suggested is bail, unless it's murder and the person has a huge flight risk, they will usually grant bail.
The District Attorney has this thing they do called "WOP" where they release the person from jail WITHOUT PROSECUTION which means they can come back later and file charges.
Sometimes with reluctant witnesses this happens.
It definitely doesn't mean the person got away with it though, they may be charged at a later date if they aren't on bail now.
2007-01-23 05:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by Lt. Dan reborn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than likely he is out on bail. If they were to have arrested him on all that, usually there would be no dropping of the charges.
There are only a few things that people cannot be bailed out on. Some of those would be probation or parole revocations. Even people that commit murder usually get a bond set for them.
The answer to your last question, is no. Charges do not HAVE to be filed.
2007-01-23 09:18:54 · answer #3 · answered by deftonehead778 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not dropped charges.
but if this guy had a decent lawyer and he had no prior record of violence, they probably set bail, he paid it and left.
if this happened over the weekend, he probably has just been arraigned, which is to say charged with a crime.
for whatever reason they decided that this guy didn't represent a danger to the community and they let him out on his own recognizance.
2007-01-23 05:08:19 · answer #4 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably out on bail.Even if father does'nt press charges the state can.
2007-01-23 05:08:26 · answer #5 · answered by xphxpd 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is your friend OJ Simpson?
2007-01-23 05:07:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe he snitch to somebody
2007-01-23 05:07:56 · answer #7 · answered by tuchulapr0808 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋