Denied

Christmas Eve Morning – Dan and I stood outside of Broward Transitional Center where Kami’s bond hearing was being held.  Like around 20 other detainees, his hearing was scheduled for 8:30 a.m.  An hour went by and we still had heard nothing.  But in that time frame there were about four lawyers who walked straight to families with a a smile on their faces.  All saying, “He must be in the holiday spirit, because he is granting bonds today”.

Around 10:10 a.m. the lawyer finally walked out.  This is the verdict:  Kami’s bond hearing was denied for not having a passport.  The judge never grants anyone a bond without a passport but we figured since Kami didn’t have one he would fall into a special circumstances category.  The judge told Kami he would need to obtain a certified copy or an original of either his mothers passport or her naturalization papers and bring it back.

So now the next step to get him out is to obtain those documents, file yet another bond hearing, bring those documents with us, determine the expense of his bond and settle it.

Indeed this is good news; however, we were looking for a little bit of better news.  But as always, we will look at this with the glass half full.

Merry Christmas to all.