Pantazes v. State

MOYLAN, Judge.

If we were to “buy into” the perspective of the appellant/bail bondsman, to wit, that he is simply an ordinary plaintiff (or ordinary defendant) involved in a legal “tussle” with the State over the entitlement to $10,000, his contentions might well have at least a surface plausibility. The very fact of bringing this appeal, however, betrays his fundamental failure to understand just how peripheral his role, as a bondsman, is and how almost coincidéntal his interests are in what is, at a more elemental level, quintessentially a struggle between the State and an absconding…