Statewide Bail Bonding v. Barlow

VOROS, Judge:

11 This case arises from the interaction of two provisions of the Bail Surety Act. Subject to stated conditions, one provision directs the court to order forfeiture of the bail bond on the prosecutor's motion if the surety fails to produce the defendant within six months after her nonappearance. The other provision directs the court to exonerate the bond if the surety produces the defendant before judgment. Here, the surety produced the defendant after the six months had run but before judgment. Accordingly, one provision seemed to require that the bond be forfeited, the other…