Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good citizens of the District of Columbia had better take cover," snapped Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. Thanks to the new Federal Bail Reform Act, he was releasing eleven criminal defendants on nothing more than their own promise to show up for trial later...
With the Ford Foundation paying the tab, Prettyman Fellows first spend two months studying some 600 cases, holding mock trials and visiting police stations. They get advice from judges, psychiatrists, even bail bondsmen. By midyear, a typical Prettyman fellow is handling no fewer than five misdemeanor cases, ten felonies, a couple of appeals and a constant series of preliminary hearings-all the while attending night classes at Georgetown and writing research papers...
Morbid Procrastination. The jury convicted Sheller for willful cheating. But while he was on bail appealing his six-month sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a key decision...
Police arrested Brian E. Dillon, 20, later that day as he attempted to remove the drugs from the locker. Dillion who is not a student, is being held in $5,000 bail...
...swamped (243,200 cases) that even Manila's generally hardworking judges cannot get around to trying criminal cases for two years. As one result, a professional criminal is almost as immune as a rich man's son. After the five minutes it takes to raise bail, complains Manila's Police Chief Ricardo Papa, the pro has "anything from one to two years to go right on practicing his trade before he ever appears in court - if he gets there...