Shifflett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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1. ““The jury convicted the petitioner, and she was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on the resisting arrest and battery convictions. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the judgments. Shifflett v. State, 80 Md.App. 151 , 560 A.2d 587 (1989). It held that the bail bondsmen’s authority under the common law to arrest the principal was broader than that of a private citizen to arrest. It quoted at length from Taylor v. Taintor, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 366, 371-72 , 21 L.Ed. 287 (1872), as follows: ‘When bail is given, the principal is regarded as delivered to the custody of his sureties. Their dominion is a continuance of the original imprisonment. Whenever they choose to do so, they may seize him and deliver him up in their discharge, and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison him until it can be done. They may exercise their rights in person or by agent. They may pursue him into another State, may arrest him on the Sabbath, and if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose. The seizure is not made by virtue of new process. None is needed. It is likened to the rearrest by the sheriff of an escaping prisoner____ In [Anonymous,] 6 Modern [231], it is said: “The bail have their principal on a string, and may pull the string whenever they please and render him in their discharge.” ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Collins