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Bailing your loved one out of jail is a matter of public safety and he or she can be refused bail under certain circumstances. Bail agents at All American Bail Bonds in Santa Clarita have explained why your loved one can be denied bail.

“The purpose of bail is to give an arrested person their freedom until he or she is convicted of a crime, and the amount of bail must be no more than is reasonably necessary to keep them from fleeing before a case is over,” said Inessa Chavez, vice president of All American Bail Bonds in Santa Clarita.

Depending on the charges, bail can range anywhere from a thousand dollars to millions of dollars.

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The Eighth Amendment prohibits “excessive bail,” meaning that the bail can’t be set so high as a ploy to force a defendant to stay in jail.

However, if the arrested person poses as public threat or high level of flight risk, the judge may deny bail or elevate it accordingly.

For example, a man that was arrested in Santa Clarita was recently denied bail.

William Robert Billingsley, 51, allegedly brandished a knife in front of his parents at their Valencia home on Monday, July 6, officials said.

“We had a report of a family disturbance where the suspect was on parole got into an argument with the family,” Lt. Derek Sabatini with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, said in a previous story. “The family went outside and we tried talking him out of the house. He turned himself in and we are going to take him for a parole violation.

“The original report of assault with a deadly weapon appears to be untrue. There may have been a knife involved but no threat was made with the knife.”

Billingsley was denied bail because he was in possession of a weapon, which is a parole violation, officials said. He could have had $25,000 bail for suspicion of brandishing a knife.

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When a judge denies a defendant bail, a number of reasons are factored in such as the safety of the public, if a defendant has “skipped bail” previously or the defendant poses a high risk of not showing up to his or her assigned court dates.

“We try our best at All American Bail Bonds in Santa Clarita to bail out as many clients as we can, however there is the occasional case where someone cannot be bailed out,” said Chavez. “We also reserve the right to refuse a bail bond to anyone.”

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