Admission to bail is the order of a competent Court or magistrate that the defendant be discharged from actual custody upon bail.
Cal. Penal Code § 1268
In What Cases the Defendant May Be Admitted to Bail
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 6 Cal. 4th 1212 - ALFREDO A. v. Superior Court (1994)
Most recently applied in Riana Buffin v. City & County of San Francisco (January 2022)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.