I am wondering, cause I know someone that was bailed out in November, and I wanted to know how long after someone gets bailed out do they get a court date? How does all that work?

Hello M:

They might not even file charges. They can wait up till the statute of limitations expires.

excon

What is that? I have no idea what that is

Basically - statute of limitations is the amount of time the prosecutor has to file charges. For murder - there is no statute of limitations. They can file those charges at any time in the future. For other crimes there are time limits in place for when charges need to be brought.

What if it has to do with grand theft of firearm?

Hello again, M:

What they think he did has nothing to do with when, or even if they're going to file charges. It's whether they can PROVE their charges. If they don't think they can, then they're not going to charge him.. If they think they can, then they'll get around to it sometime. They're not in a hurry.

excon

It all depends on the DA and the court, as noted, they may decide to drop the charges, or not even press charges, the person on bail, may have their attorney do a plea agreement if they know they will be convicted.

But I have seen it take 6 months to a couple of years to get to court.

Oh, cause I hear they sit around and wait to see if people commit more crimes so they can add to their charges or just surprise them out of nowhere and take them to jail

The process is first that a person is arrested. After the arrest the DA has to file charges within a set amount of time usually 24-48 hours. The next step is to get an indictment, which basically is a judge hearing the plea and setting bail. If bail is set, the defendant can post bail and get out of jail awaiting trial. Trial is then set based on the DA's calendar.

Since bail is set by a judge, not the police or DA, there is not likely to be any trickery there.

And no, they don't just sit around and see if they do more crimes, first unlike TV for example in Georgia to get a drug test back from the lab may take 9 months.
So if a person is arrested on drugs, the official crime lab report may take 9 months to get back.

Oh, OK I see , thanks for the answers