State v. Bonds

OPINION

HALL, Judge.

¶ 1 Garcia Bail Bonds and Seneca Insurance Company (referred to collectively as “surety”) appeal from the trial court’s order forfeiting an appearance bond after Theodore Pineda (“defendant”) failed to appear at a pretrial conference. Defendant was unable to appear in the Arizona case because he had returned to Colorado and been incarcerated there after a judge of the Superior Court in Maricopa County permitted him to return to Colorado and self-surrender on an unrelated fugitive complaint. Surety claims that these circumstances constitute reasonable cause excusing…