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Yes, that’s right. Under the 8th amendment the issue of bail is addressed in the Constitution; but it did, indeed, take the Supreme Court to first qualify how bail might be recouped. In recent years the Court’s original bounty hunter ruling has continued to change and be reinterpreted - Mostly on the level of state government. Still, for many decades and in some states, even today, bounty hunters can enter into a home without a warrant; and that’s the point I’d hoped to make. Don’t go shooting no bounty hunter, or game warden if he enters onto your property, or kicks in your front door because, depending upon where you live, you might be charged with murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_hunter
Bounty Hunting History - HowStuffWorks
Well, the United States Supreme Court case was in 1873, i.e., 143 years ago. State laws for bounty hunters are about further restricting bounty hunting and not about circumventing the United States Supreme Court decision from 1873 (and the Constitution) by expanding the rights of bounty hunters. There is not a single state in which a bounty hunter can enter the property of anyone other than the fugitive without a warrant or the owner's permission. If a state permits bounty hunting, then a a bounty hunter can enter the property of the fugitive without a warrant based on the United States Supreme Court decision from 1873.
If a bounty hunter kicks in my door, he will likely get shot as I am not a fugitive and the bounty hunter is invading my home. It would be justifiable homicide if it comes to that.