If the charge is for any other offense, he may be admitted to bail before conviction, as a matter of right.
Cal. Penal Code § 1271
In What Cases the Defendant May Be Admitted to Bail
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Jennings v. Rodriguez (2018)
Most recently applied in Jennings v. Rodriguez (February 2018)
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.