Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, the Blackstone Rangers also create another sort of dilemma. On one hand they are the terroristic street gang. Police estimate the Rangers are responsible for twenty to twenty-five shootings a month. Their extortion fund produces literally thousands of dollars in bail money each month. Hardly a day passes, when the Rangers are not accused of a violent offense...
...Executive. Starting with perhaps fifty or a hundred people would be sent in waves each day, increasing in number. There would be a serious attempt to have each wave led by prestigious people and to use the press and the media as much as possible. Jail without bail for many is important, probably critical. People should be psychologically prepared not to back down should long sentences be made a threat or a reality...
...dealing with the Wisconsin legislature, and by his shrewd handling of student demonstrations, combining firmness with give-and-take. After having been blockaded in his office by one group of antiwar protesters last February, for example, Fleming turned around and put up $1,250 of his own money to bail out 19 students who had been arrested by police during the demonstrations...
Archaic Rules. The right to speedy trial was articulated as long ago as Magna Carta (1215) and later in the Sixth Amendment (1791) for the pur pose of preventing prolonged detention without trial. Today, most states apply the right to defendants on bail or in jail; one modern purpose is to prevent ero sion of trial evidence. But Klopfer was out of luck in North Carolina, which restricted the right only to defendants in custody...
...comes the green truck of the Boston Globe to drop stacks of Sunday papers at the kiosk news stand. Heave away my hearty, bail by bail, comics outermost...