What You need To Know About Warrants

Wallin & Klarich has handled virtually every possible warrant in California. A warrant is usually due to a failure to appear in court or issued when the district attorney originally files criminal charges.

When a defendant fails to appear in court, the judge issues a warrant for that person’s arrest. At the time the warrant is issued, the judge will usually set bail. That bail is the amount of money needed to bail out of custody if arrested on that warrant Wallin & Klarich attorneys have been successful in recalling these warrants and getting the defendant released on their own recognizance. This is especially true when the warrant is on the infraction (a traffic ticket ) or a misdemeanor (drunk driving, petty theft, driving on a suspended license, etc.) Thus, we can save the client countless dollars in bail bond fees.

If the warrant is on a felony, we can often arrange with the district attorney and the judge a bail reduction when the client is surrendered to the court on that warrant. The attorneys at Wallin & Klarich will contact the judge and district attorney and work out a surrender and an “own recognizance” release or a significant bail reduction. We would contact a bondsman and have that bondsman present in hopes that our client never spends a minute in jail.

Warrants can also result in a failure to appear on a traffic matter if there is a failure to appear on a traffic violation, the DMV will take action and suspend the privilege to drive until the warrant is recalled and they receive an “abstract” establishing that the warrant was recalled and fines have been paid. Our firm can resolve these matters without the need for our client to appear in court.