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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.
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:
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.
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.
The Bounty is a 1984 British historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, and produced by Bernard Williams with Dino De Laurentiis as executive producer. It is the fifth film version of the story of the mutiny on the Bounty. The screenplay was by Robert Bolt and it was based on the book Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian (1972) by Richard Hough. It was made by Dino De Laurentiis Productions and distributed by Orion Pictures Corporation and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. The music score was composed by Vangelis and the cinematography was by Arthur Ibbetson.
The film is set as flashbacks from the court martial at Greenwich of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers led by his friend Fletcher Christian (Mel Gibson), during its expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean.
Bligh sets out from Great Britain in December 1787, electing to sail the Bounty west round the tip of South America in an attempt to use the expedition to fulfill an ambition to circumnavigate the globe. The attempt to round Cape Horn fails due to harsh weather, and the ship is obliged to take the longer eastern route. Finally arriving in Tahiti in October 1788, Bligh finds that due to the delays, the wind is against them for a quick return journey and they must stay on the island for four months longer than planned.
A bounty hunter is an individual who seeks out fugitives for a monetary reward.
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I stand as a witness to a jury and judge
And for all my sins I will answer
My name you'll know my trade you'll see
I am the Bounty Hunter
I as no friendship, I seek no badge
I always travel alone
I take no partners, lose no friends
I keep my Christian name unknown
My weapons are guns and cunning and speed
My prize is the colour of green
And if my service is easily bought
My faith has never been
Dead or alive I carry them in
The cowardly and the silent
For seeking bounty belonging to you
The rope delivers a judgement
My weapons are guns and cunning and speed
My prize is the colour of green
And if my service is easily bought
My faith has never been
Spirit breaking, widow making Bounty hunter
Mine is the chase and the luck of the draw
Yours is the iron hand of the state
Yours is the book, the bell and the rope
Mine is the Gamblers fate
Debt-collecting sin-inspecting bounty hunter
Never failing devil trailing bounty hunter
I stand as a witness to a jury and judge
And for all my sins I will answer
My name you know, my trade you'll see
I am the Bounty Hunter
My weapons are guns and cunning and speed
My prize is the colour of green
If my service is easily bought
My faith has never been
Debt-collecting sin-inspecting bounty hunter