California Legal Brief

The Rule of The People v. The North River Insurance Company is that a defendant's appearance through counsel under Penal Code section 977 waiver is sufficient to trigger mandatory bond exoneration under Penal Code section 1305(c)(1), and courts may properly condition such exoneration on payment of extradition costs recoverable under section 1306(b), under circumstances where the defendant has been extradited from out-of-state custody and appears through counsel while in local custody.