Recovering bail money from 16 years ago

[histori]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? New York

As a 26 year old in 1998, I was arrested for a misdemeanor and posted bail the next day. The charges were dropped later. I was too stressed out at the time to claim my money back. Now, 16 years later, I'm very low on funds and trying to scrape together whatever I can.

Is it possible for me to get my bail money back or is there some time limit that's expired?

A complication is that my friend had paid the bail at the time and I paid her back . She has lost track of the receipt. So we don't have a receipt anymore.

Thank you

 

[LdiJ]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? New York

As a 26 year old in 1998, I was arrested for a misdemeanor and posted bail the next day. The charges were dropped later. I was too stressed out at the time to claim my money back. Now, 16 years later, I'm very low on funds and trying to scrape together whatever I can.

Is it possible for me to get my bail money back or is there some time limit that's expired?

A complication is that my friend had paid the bail at the time and I paid her back . She has lost track of the receipt. So we don't have a receipt anymore.

Thank you

I suspect that you are completely SOL at this point. No receipt plus a 16 year time lag would make it virtually impossible. In addition, if it was one of those cases where your bail was (for example) 10k, and you used a bail bondsman and only had to put out 1k in cash, then you wouldn't have gotten any money back anyway. That 1k was what you had to pay to the bondsman for their services.

 

[racer72]

Legally the money, if you have any coming back, would have been turned over to the NY state comptroller. Copy and paste the link below to check.

http://www.osc.state.ny.us/ouf/
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