State v. Cardinal

This is an appeal under 13 V.S.A. § 7556(b) and V.R.A.P. 9(a) from a bail order of the trial court forfeiting the defendant’s originally posted bail and imposing additional $250,000 bail. Defendant contends that the trial court erred by ordering forfeiture of the $15,000 cash bail initially posted by defendant, and by imposing the additional bail, after finding he had breached the original conditions of release. We vacate the trial court’s order forfeiting bail, and modify that part of the trial court’s order setting bail at $250,000.

Defendant was arraigned on a charge of sexual assault, 13…