People v. Seneca Ins. Co

In People v. Seneca Ins. Co. (2010) 189 Cal.App.4th 1075, the district attorney had decided to extradite but did not move the process along; whereas here, no decision to extradite had been made. Even so, Seneca employed broad language concerning the limited availability of tolling under section 1305, subdivision (g). According to Seneca a bond is not exonerated just because the prosecutor had not completed "or even initiated" extradition before the bond exoneration period ended. (Seneca, supra, 189 Cal.App.4th at p. 1082.) The Seneca court also noted that bond exoneration was contingent upon return of the defendant within the exoneration period, not the initiation of extradition proceedings. (Ibid.)