Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implement this, Congress would have to change the 1966 Bail Reform Act. The act's broad wording has resulted in serious abuses. Most of the time, only capital offenders are detained, while in Washington and elsewhere rapists, armed robbers and other violent types drift back into the streets. Many cannot be found for trial...
Nixon, by attempting to give judges more discretion as to whom they should allow to go free on bail, may be running afoul of the Constitution. Excessive bail or its denial, except for the most serious crimes, is of course contrary to the fundamentals of Anglo-American law. Thus constitutional experts do not believe that the Supreme Court would permit preventive detention. Says Harvard Professor Robert McCloskey: "An educated guess is that the court would consider this a step backward, and the mood of the court is not to tolerate steps backward...
...That assumption was reinforced by reports that Baghdad was secretly trying as "spies" 35 more, including 13 Jews, and holding hundreds of others in jail. They include former Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz and ex-Defense Minister Major General Abdel Aziz Uqaili. Also among them was an American engineer, Paul Bail, who was on loan from Esso to the Iraq Petroleum Co. Friends said that Iraqi police apparently suspected that an elaborate hi-fi set in his home was actually a radio transmitter. Baghdad later promised to be "tolerant" and said that "he may be released in the next few days...
Unable to produce the bail money, they spent the night in jail. The three secretaries were taken to the Women's House of Detention, where they were fingerprinted and asked to strip. A male doctor, looking for narcotics, examined them. "We were forced to assume all kinds of awkward and humiliating postures," Carole Geiger later said. Simmons, who was handcuffed and taken to the men's jail-"the Tombs"-was unable to contact his family. He claimed that when he filled out a form requesting that police call his father, a cop quipped: "Do you think these calls...
...four protesters were not only directed at the railroad. The New York Times referred to the police and the Brooklyn night-court judge as "allies in arrogance" of the road. Edward Dudley, a justice of the New York Supreme Court, announced the start of an investigation into the high bail figure set for the four rebels. "This is not the kind of case for which bail would normally be required," said Dudley. "Someone has made a serious mistake." Deciding that the affair was serious indeed-and that someone ought to pay for their discomfort-the four commuters announced at week...