That's a private business deal between you and your bail bondsman. If the judge releases you, without bond, you will owe only the amount the bail bondsman charged for his services.
No, BAIL money is not returned, if you use a BAIL BONDSMAN, If you post the FULL BAIL AMOUNT with the clerk of the jail or court they will refund your money and proceedings are over and the defendant is finally sentenced. Paying a bondsman is usually ten percent of the bail money that the court sets. This is their fee that they charge in the event that you do not have the full amount of bail that the court sets. Bail is used to insure that someone will show up to their court hearing. If they show up and are there throughout the trial, at the end, whether they are guilty or innocent, the bail money is returned.
Bondsmen do not return your funds. Bond, or bail, is a sum of money put up to secure a person's appearance in court. Often if a person does not have adequate funds to put up the full amount of bond, a person will hire a bondsman. The bondsman will require the person to pay a small portion of the bond (usually about 10%), and the bondsman will guarantee the appearance for the court, and will put up the full sum of the bond. When the person appears for trial, the bond is returned to the bondsman. The bondsman then retains the percentage collected as payment. If you retained the services of a bondsman instead of posting the full bond, you are not due anything returned when the defendant appears.
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The court can rule in favor of the plaintiff. This is not an unusual occurrence. The plaintiff usually gets everything they asked for, which may be money, injunctions and compensation for court costs.
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if you use a bail bondsman no, if you posted the Full bail amount you will get your money back after the defendant is completed with all the court dates and when he is finally sentenced. The bond will be exonerated. no exon, no return of money.
Get in contact with an attorney, document with receips, photos, logs. With the attorney's help, put rent payments in escrow with the court.
In any case at all, if the defendent returns on the appointed date, the bail/bond money is returned. It doesn't matter whether he/she is found guilty or not, as the bail money is only a deposit, meant to ensure that the defendent will return to court.
If your friend did not have a signed contract with the person he loaned the money too then it is unfortunate, but he will lose the money. He could try and go to small debt court to see if he can get his money returned.