Cal. Rules of Court, rule 4.101 · Chapter 1. Pretrial Proceedings
Bail in criminal cases
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The fact that a defendant in a criminal case has or has not asked for a jury trial must not be taken into consideration in fixing the amount of bail and, once set, bail may not be increased or reduced by reason of such fact.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 4.101 amended effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 801 effective July 1, 1964; previously renumbered effective January 1, 2001.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/four/rule4_101
- Text hash
- sha256 bf17c4cdcda221b7c4eed21ddd5b31b0d5a377cc92de0a297be90bc55646c7ec
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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