Document Type
Peach Sheet
Abstract
The Act provides that chief magistrates may establish no contest cash bond schedules, allows persons arrested or accused of misdemeanor bad check violations to post a no contest cash bond, and deems failure to appear for trial to be a guilty plea and forfeiture of the bond, unless the court provides otherwise. When the court rejects the guilty plea and forfeiture, the Act instructs the court to issue a bench warrant for the defendant's arrest for subsequent default.
Recommended Citation
Angelyn M. Wright,
COURTS Magistrate Courts: Provide for an Optional No Contest Bond Forfeiture Procedure for Misdemeanor Bad Check Violations as a Final Disposition and Provide for Bench Warrants When Forfeiture Is Not Final Disposition,
11
Ga. St. U. L. Rev.
(1994).
Available at:
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol11/iss1/4