People v. Public Service Mutual Insurance

In these proceedings by a surety of the defendants in a criminal case to vacate orders forfeiting defendants’ bail for their nonappearance at the court-appointed times, the main question for our determination is whether the Appellate Division in denying the applications properly exercised its discretion.

In the case involving the Jerry Robinson bail bond, the surety failed to produce the defendant for sentence on the court-appointed time, February 18, 1972, and the surety’s bond of $2,500 was ordered forfeited. On January 23, 1973, an attorney for the surety filed an application to remit the…