Can a Judge Revoke Your Bond Whenever He Wants to?
Sometimes, when a client is scheduled to go to court, she will ask me if the judge is going to revoke her bond and lock her up when she arrives at court. I assure such clients that the judge will not revoke their bond and lock them up unless they have violated one of the conditions of their bond.
In a recent case called Creech v. State of Florida, a Florida appellate court said that before a judge can increase someone's bond, the prosecution must first prove that there has been a substantial change in circumstances or additional evidence uncovered since the person's bond was originally set. A judge cannot increase someone's bond simply because he believes that the conditions of bond that were previously set by another judge were too lenient.
