GÓMEZ v. STATE

No. A-9270.

172 P.3d 824 (2007)

Arelia GÓMEZ, an agent of Alaskan Bail Bonds, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

December 7, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Buchholdt, Anchorage (opening brief), and Eugene B. Cyrus, Chugiak (reply brief), for the Appellant.

Tamara E. de Lucia, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Talis J. Colberg, Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

This is an appeal brought by Arelia Gómez, the agent of a bail bonding company that issued a bail bond to guarantee the appearance of a criminal defendant, James Haynes. When Haynes failed to appear for his sentencing hearing, Superior Court Judge Charles R. Pengilly declared the company's bond forfeit.

About ten months later, after Haynes was captured (apparently with Gómez's assistance), Gómez filed...

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