Legal Question in DUI Law in Kentucky

Re: bail

You get the bond (minus 5%) returned when the case is over. If you want it back before then, then the defendant can ask (through counsel) to (1) lower the bond (2) allow release on his/her own recogonizance, or (3) have a substitute bond approved by the court. If you, as the person posting the bond, want it without going through all of this then you simply go the the Clerk and surrender the bond and the defendant will be arrested or you can deliver the defendant to jail and collect your bond from the clerk. Usually the court must be involved in part of this depending on some local preference in procedure.

Re: bail

When you post bail you will receive the return of your money upon final disposition of the case, assuming it is posted in your name, and that you did not just loan the defendant the money to post in his name. You may go off the bond at any time you choose to do so, but if you do the defendent goes back to jail unless other arrangements have neen made for someone elso to post bond.