deew69 said:
...I signed it 'Without Prejudice UCC 1-308'...
Oh, and by the way, that is absolutely, 100% meaningless in this context.
[1] The reference UCC 1-308 is to section 1-308 of the Uniform Commercial Code. It reads:
"(a) A party that with explicit reservation of rights performs or promises performance or assents to performance in a manner demanded or offered by the other party does not thereby prejudice the rights reserved. Such words as "without prejudice," "under protest," or the like are sufficient..."
[2] However, the Uniform Commercial Code applies only in connection with commercial transactions. See 1-103 which reads:
"§ 1-103. Construction of [Uniform Commercial Code] to Promote its Purposes and Policies: Applicability of Supplemental Principles of Law.
(a) [The Uniform Commercial Code] must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are: (1) to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions; (2) to permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties; and (3) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.
(b) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of [the Uniform Commercial Code], the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, and other validating or invalidating cause supplement its provisions."
[3] Your Personal Recognizance Bond is not part of a commercial transaction.
[4] In any case, all that could mean in this context, is that you will appear as promised but you reserve your rights -- which in this context would mean to plead not guilty and raise any legally cognizable defenses.
[5] Note also, that the Uniform Commercial Code itself is not law. It is a model law. It has been adopted by all the States, but generally each State has made some of its own revisions to it. The UCC will apply in any particular State only in the form actually adopted by that State.
[6] And in any case, the UCC does not affect criminal procedure.