State v. Stills’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “A. All bonds taken to secure the appearance of any person before any district court executed by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana or an agent of such company, except at a preliminary examination, shall be forfeited and collected as follows: (1)(a) If at the time fixed for appearance such person fails to appear and answer when called, the judge, on motion of the district attorney, upon hearing of proper evidence, including notice or attempted notice to the defendant and the surety, if such is required by Code of Criminal Procedure Art. 337, shall forthwith enter a judgment decreeing the forfeiture of the bond. * * * After entering the fact of such failure to appear in the court minutes, the clerk of court shall promptly mail notice of the forfeiture * * * to the surety on the bond whose address is on the face thereof and shall execute an affidavit of the mailing, and place it in the record. * * * Failure to mail the proper notice within six months after the entry of the forfeiture shall release the surety from all obligations under the bond. (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 743 So. 2d 870 - Bankers Ins. Co. v. State