Commonwealth v. Gaines

OPINION BY

LAZARUS, J.

Appellants, criminal defendants who failed to appear for court listings in each of their unrelated cases, appeal from orders denying their petitions to set aside bail1 judgments or remit bail in its entirety.2 In each case, the trial court issued a bail forfeiture order granting the defendants *105020 days to surrender or risk being held liable for the full amount of bail. None of the defendants came forward within that time limit; as a result, default judgments were entered against each defendant for the full amount of his bail. After more than 113 years elapsed from the…