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Bail
Bond
A bond posted with the court by a professional
bail bondsman or individual, of the accused or
a material witness. The bondsman or individual
must forfeit a specified sum of money if the
bonded party fails to appear in court when
requested.
Bail
Bondsman
A bail bond agent, or bondsman, is any person
or corporation, which will act as a surety and
pledge money or property as bail for the
appearance of a criminal defendant in court.
Although banks, insurance companies and other
similar institutions are usually the sureties
on other types of contracts, for example, to
bond a contractor who is under a contractual
obligation to pay for the completion of a
construction project, such entities are
reluctant to put their depositors' or
policyholders' funds at the kind of risk
involved in posting a bail bond. Bail bond
agents, on the other hand, are usually in the
business to cater exclusively to criminal
defendants, often securing their customers'
release in just a few hours.
Bail bond agents are almost exclusively
found in the United States. In most other
countries bail is usually more modest and the
practice of bounty hunting is illegal.
Bounty
Hunter
A bounty hunter captures fugitives for a
monetary reward (bounty). Other names, mainly
used in the United States, include, bail
enforcement agent, fugitive recovery agent, and
bail fugitive investigator. Other countries do
not have bounty hunters; they use standard law
enforcement agencies to recover suspects.
Bounty Hunting, and Bounty Hunters, are legal
only in two nations, the United States and the
Republic of the Philippines
Dog The
Bounty Hunter
Dog the Bounty
Hunter is a reality television show on A&E
which chronicles Duane "Dog" Chapman's
operations at his job as a bounty hunter, at Da
Kine Bail Bonds in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dog is joined by his wife and business
partner, Beth Smith Chapman, his sons Leland
and Duane Lee, associate Tim Chapman (no
relation, although Tim is often referred to as
Dog's brother by Dog and the show's intro
scene), and his daughter 'Baby' Lyssa Chapman.
In season one, the team was joined by Dog's
nephew Justin Bihag. In addition to Hawaii
episodes, episodes have been filmed in Dog
Chapman's home state of Colorado and the city
of San Francisco.
Production of and airing of the show was
halted by A&E on November 2, 2007, after
Dog Chapman was recorded uttering racial slurs.
After Chapman's public repentance and vow to
make amends, and after a show of support from
fans and from black leaders including Roy
Innis, on February 19, 2008, A&E announced
that the show would return. Reruns of Dog The
Bounty Hunter, along with never before seen
episodes from season 4, began airing on June
25, 2008. New episodes (the show's fifth
season) began airing on July 16, 2008 and
Season 6 started in February 2009.
On April 21, 2009, Dog was allegedly shot at
in Colorado Springs, Colorado with a handgun
while attempting to arrest a fugitive, Hoang
Nguyen, along with his crew and bail bondsman
Bobby Brown. The suspect escaped on a
motorcycle, and was captured by Dog about 6
hours later. According to Dog's website and
TMZ, Nguyen was arrested and charged with
attempted homicide related to this shooting
attempt of Dog and the Chapman family, despite
the lack of evidence such as a bullet hole or
shell casing.[3]
On 15 May 2009, El Paso County Assistant DA
dropped the attempted murder charge against the
alleged shooter, due to lack of evidence, and
conflicting statements by Dog, his son Leland,
and Bobby Brown. The Prosecutors also claim
that they have not received any footage from
the incident which was allegedly filmed by the
crew even though it has been requested.
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