Bounty hunter

A bounty hunter is a person who captures fugitives for a monetary reward (bounty). Other professional names, mainly used in the United States, include bounty killer, bail enforcement agent, bail agent, recovery agent, bail recovery agent, or fugitive recovery agent.

The National Association of Fugitive Recovery Agents is the professional association representing this industry.

Bounty hunters in the Old West

In 1872, the Supreme Court ruled that bounty hunters were a part of the U.S. law enforcement system with a decision in Taylor v. Taintor:

Modern times in the U.S.

In modern times, bounty hunters are known as Bail Enforcement Agents and carry out arrests mostly for those who have skipped bail with an average salary of $26,000 – $75,000. The idea of 'bounty hunting' is now not often used or liked by many in the profession due to its historical context.

Laws in the U.S. and Canada

In the United States legal system, the 1873 U.S. Supreme Court case Taylor v. Taintor, 16 Wall (83 U.S. 366, 21 L.Ed. 287), is cited as having established that the person into whose custody an accused is remanded as part of the accuser's bail has sweeping rights to that person (although this may have been accurate at the time the decision was reached, the portion cited was obiter dictum and has no binding precedential value). Most bounty hunters are employed by bail bondsmen: the bounty hunter is usually paid about 10% of the total bail amount, but this commission can vary on an individual, case-by-case basis; usually depending upon the difficulty level of the assignment and the approach used to exonerate the bail bond. If the fugitive eludes bail, the bondsman, not the bounty hunter, is responsible for 100% of the total bail amount. This is a way of ensuring his clients arrive at trial. In the United States, bounty hunters claim to catch 31,500 bail jumpers per year, about 90% of people who jump bail.

Bounty hunter (disambiguation)

A bounty hunter is an individual who seeks out fugitives for a monetary reward.

Bounty hunter or bounty hunters may also refer to:

In TV and movies:

In gaming:

List of My Name Is Earl episodes

The NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl ran from September 20, 2005 to May 19, 2009 for a total of four seasons, and 96 episodes.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1: 2005–06

Season 2: 2006–07

Season 3: 2007–08

Season 4: 2008–09

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