the justice system doesn’t actually make money off of bonding. The bondsmen do. The courts hold the bond until after the trial unless the accused breaks bond, violates terms of release, at which time the money is returned. Usually the people don’t actually put up their own money but if they do, they get it all back when it is over, guilty or innocent. Bondsmen guarantee the money to the courts if they don’t show and in turn they usually take ten percent of the amount and never return it.

Cheaper to stay out of trouble.

I wouldn’t think so. Imagine you were at Wal-Mart and someone pulled a gun and shot someone else. Should you be charged for being there at the time?

If the shooting were part of a crime they were both committing, I think they could be charged for felony murder because someone got killed during the commission of the crime, even though it was the one committing the crime. It doesn’t look like it was part of this instance, though. I could be wrong, though.

David for avoiding meth production
and producers and consumers

When we’re talking drug use and addiction a simple blood test would keep the innocent from spending 90 days in jail. In my opinion, if they are innocent they wouldn’t have illegal drugs in their blood system. You’ve got to get the drug out of their blood system to even began the task of keeping it out of their mind on a daily basis. As long as its in their blood system their mind is telling them, more! more! more! 90 days might not cure the addiction, but it could be a beginning. I know that as long as they can gain access to the drug the problem is not going to get better and will likely get worse. I don’t know how long it takes to deplete meth from a persons blood system but I think that’s how long they should be locked away from the drug. After that a mandatory blood test monthly for a year. If caught with the drug in their blood stream or fail to take the blood test, a mandatory 2 year jail sentence. The laws have to get stricter on the users of meth. people are dying because of this drug and the problem is getting worse.

“what does the Escambia County Legal system have to do with these two? ”

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I’m saying that the arrest, trial, and disposition process here is a revolving door that seldom involves enough social services options to entice addicts in particular to hit the rehab trail.

The economy can barely support clean and sober people at this point. Freshly bailed and facing trial, where are they gonna go, what are they gonna do except cook a fresh batch and wait for the next deputy. Who will be the next to die in a hail of gunfire?

“Wouldn’t it be cool if they dropped out of the drug scene completely, rehabbed and rejoined society productively?” was simply wishful thinking on my part.

Human waste is wasteful and these two are affecting dozens, if not hundreds of people in their misery.