{"id":1089,"date":"2012-01-09T04:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T04:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/look-into-own-recognizance-release-or-release\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:47:29","slug":"look-into-own-recognizance-release-or-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/look-into-own-recognizance-release-or-release\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Into “Own Recognizance” Release (“O.R. Release”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Take one chopstick by itself and try to break it.\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 Take a bundle of ten chopstick and try breaking it.\u00a0 Harder right? \u00a0\u00a0A similar concept when it comes when asking the court to release you on your own recognizance.\u00a0 What do I mean?\u00a0 Well, anytime a person is arrested, a decision is made whether the person should be released with a citation to appear in court.\u00a0 If the government decides that the person shouldn\u2019t be released, the next question is how much should bail be set at.\u00a0 Depending on the type of crime, a bail amount will be set.\u00a0 The arrestee can then post bail (generally 10% down if going through a bail bonds man) and show up to court on the date indicated on their paperwork.<\/p>\n

Now lets assume that a person doesn\u2019t have money for bail, a person will generally have their arraignment within 48 hours.\u00a0 At the arraignment, the defendant\u2019s attorney can ask the court to release the defendant on his\/her own recognizance (his\/her own promise to come back to future court hearings).\u00a0 This is also referred in the legal community as \u201cO.R. release).\u00a0 This can be done by making arguments that the person accused of the crime is not a threat to society and has enough community and family ties to ensure his\/her promise to come back and face the charges against him\/her. \u00a0In other words, OR release allows a person to be released without posting bail; the court relies only on their promise to come back to court.<\/p>\n

A person who is accused of a crime should always consider hiring an attorney.\u00a0 The attorney would make the arguments for your release on your behalf.\u00a0 A good argument is to bring the support of your family and friends who are willing to vouch for you and demonstrate that you are a good member of society.<\/p>\n

If you or a loved one has been arrested and cannot post bail, contact our law office to see how we can assist in getting you or your loved one home and out of jail.<\/p>\n

Law Offices of Lisa Wong<\/p>\n

(858) 609-9664<\/p>\n

lisawong@lisawonglaw.com<\/p>\n

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Take one chopstick by itself and try to break it.\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 Take a bundle of ten chopstick and try breaking it.\u00a0 Harder right? \u00a0\u00a0A similar concept when it comes when asking the court to release you on your own recognizance.\u00a0 What do I mean?\u00a0 Well, anytime a person is arrested, a decision is made whether…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}