If you are charged with assaulting a family member, the court will set your bond high to prevent you from posting a bond, which does not seem to make sense, right? The courts want to make sure the accused signs a protective order, ordering them to avoid contact with the complainant for 61 days. The court wants the accused to be in custody when this happens. The courts started this practice a few years back in an attempt to prevent defendants from posting a bond and then making contact with the complainant immediately afterwards, in violation to state domestic violence laws.
So, if you are charged, most likely, your bond will be set at $888,888. Once it is reviewed it will likely be lowered to $50,000, still a ridiculously high bond for a Class A Misdemeanor. No one can prevent you from posting a $50,000 non-arrest bond if you choose, however, if you hire an attorney you should be able to get the bond reduce, but not without some risk. I will comment of this later.
You could, of course, go turn yourself into the Harris County Sheriff’s Department at 49 San Jacinto Houston Texas. If you choose to go this route, you would then go through the booking process and eventually stand before a probable cause court magistrate in the jail, where you will most likely get a greatly reduced amount. If this is your first offense, most likely your bond will be reduced to $1,500, many hours later.
If you choose not to turn yourself in, there is another way to post bond and avoid being arrested. This is the route most people choose for obvious reasons. To do this you will need to turn yourself in at the court instead of the Sheriff’s Office. Before you do, you will need to hire an attorney and retain a bail bonding company who will both appear in court with you. The court will call you, your attorney and the bondsman to stand before the judge where the judge will issue a protective order against you and then lower the bond. Then the Judge will release you into the custody of the bondsman to be taken to the Sheriff’s Office Processing Center located at 49 San Jacinto where you will post bond and be booked. You will then be released on bond to appear in court at some future date
by Randy Kubosh,
manager of Kubosh Bail Bonding,
Address: 1701 Lubbock St. Houston, TX 77007
Phone 713-222-0983