The body found matched his description and the bondsman holding a $3,000 bond on him was released of the obligation that same year on the assumption that the client had died.
Several high-profile cases involving bondsman misconduct have led to calls for increased regulation of the industry and/or outright abolition of the bail for profit industry.
It is commonly credited as having decided that a person to whom a suspect is remanded, such as a bail bondsman, has sweeping rights to recover the suspect.