How is bond determined when a person is in jail?
If a person is awaiting trial, the judge is to set the bail at an amount sufficient to ensure that he appears at trial. That may involve considerations of all sorts of factors including the nature of the alleged crime, the person’s ties to the community, education levels, etc. As a practical matter, some courts have established bail schedules, standard bails, for some common crimes, and the bail is set at that amount until someone makes a motion to increase or decrease.it. If the person is not awaiting trial, but is serving a sentence, there is no bail.
