Asked 2/6/2016 – Austin, TX

My boyfriend committed burglary at the age of 17 and I’ll 23 have an active warrant for probation violation is there any way that he is able to bond out even though its violation of probation

Answer

He will be able to bond out if the Court who placed him on probation allows him to bond out, but generally bonds on revocations are not set for felony cases. . He should contact the attorney who represented him on his previous case (or any other local criminal defense attorney) and see what the Judge’s policies are. He will have to remain in jail for a minimum of a couple of days after he is booked in, however, in order to be served with the motion to revoke. The allegations in the motion to revoke are also key in determining whether you should even attempt to bond him out. For example, if the allegations are technical, and he did not pay his fines and court costs, you shouldn’t spend money on a bond. You should spend it catching up on the fees. Also, if the allegation is he failed to report, the Judge is not going so let him out on a bond when he ran off the first time. Again, contact a local attorney, determine the exact allegations of the motion to revoke and develop a game plan from there.