State v. Braun

Interpreting ch. 969 and ch. 973, Stats., as articulating a legislative interest in the immediate incarceration of the defendant after sentencing and denominating that interest as public policy, the majority holds that a bail bond agreement extending bond beyond sentencing is void as a matter of public policy and that the surety’s duty to produce the defendant pursuant to a bail bond agreement expires, again as a matter of public policy, at the time of sentencing. The result is that while the convicted and sentenced defendant remains at large, a fugitive from justice, the surety recovers…