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The duties of a Texas sheriff generally include keeping the county jail, providing bailiffs for the county and district courts within his county and serving process issued by said courts, and providing general law enforcement services to residents. The current sheriff of Hidalgo County is J.E. "Eddie" Guerra since April 3, 2014.
Garza County Courthouse: Post, Garza County: 1923 built [245] 2000 RTHL [246] 2001 NRHP [247] Designed in the Neoclassical style by Guy A. Carlander. [245] Old Gillespie County Courthouse: Fredericksburg, Gillespie County: 1882 built [248] 1967 RTHL [249] 1967 restored [250] 1971 NRHP [251] Designed in the Italianate style by Alfred Giles. [248 ...
The court in many jurisdictions, especially states that as of 2012 prohibited surety bail bondsmen – Oregon, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky and Maine [29] – may demand a certain amount of the total bail (typically 10%) be given to the court, which is known as surety on the bond and unlike with bail bondsmen, is returned if the ...
David Marcel Fleischer is an American judge currently serving on the Harris County Criminal Court in Texas. [1] He was first elected to the position in 2018, running as a Democrat, and won reelection in 2022. [1] [2] [3] Fleischer is popular online for his unique style of holding defendants accountable while offering guidance. [4] [5]
A bail bondsman, bail bond agent or bond dealer is any person, agency or corporation that will act as a surety and pledge money or property as bail for the appearance of a defendant in court. Bail bond agents are almost exclusively found in the United States because the practice of bail bonding is illegal in most other countries.
A person who is arrested for a 'bailable' offence may secure bail at the police station, while those who fail to secure police bail and those arrested for non-bailable offences have to secure bail in court. [1] Sections 436 to 450 set out the provisions for the grant of bail and bonds in criminal cases.
One example of a large bail requirement was a case in Texas where New York real estate heir Robert Durst received a bail of $3 billion. The Durst's lawyer appealed the bail to the Texas Court of Appeals. The court responded that "it could not find a case where bail was set, let alone upheld, at even 1 percent of any of the amounts against the ...
Edinburg (/ ˈ ɛ d ɪ n b ɜːr ɡ / ED-in-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. [6] The population was 100,243 at the 2020 census, [3] and in 2022, its estimated population was 104,294, [4] making it the second-largest city in Hidalgo County, and the third-largest city in the larger Rio Grande Valley region.