Bail Refund News Today

The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County said understaffing has caused major delays in refund bail bonds in the usual 4 to 6 week period.

PHILADELPHIA >> A Port Allegany man has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging Delaware County wrongfully withheld bail money he was due after he was found not guilty or charges were otherwise dismissed or withdrawn from a 2016 arrest. Tony Burford is alleging violations of the Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as conversion and a Monell claim alleging an unconstitutional policy, according to an amended class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court...