Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to make bail or hire a good lawyer, the Negro awaits his state court trial in a segregated jail; even the drunk tanks are generally separate, and the turnkeys are uniformly white. When he finally does go to trial, the Negro enters the courthouse that to him has become the symbol of all his afflictions. There may be a Negro janitor about the premises, but everyone else is white, from judges and prosecutors down to clerks. Though many Southern judges dispense justice with admirable evenhandedness, the judge the Negro faces may well be ruled by his own prejudice...
...entitled to the presence of his lawyer. When his lawyer is absent, the police are entitled to ask "whether he wishes to make a statement." If he balks, the police are barred from "persistent questioning." After this period, the suspect is either freed, charged and released on bail, or arraigned before a magistrate...
...player can often bounce a shot off an angled wall to give a hit that is almost impossible to return, Pell explained yesterday. In addition, a skillful server may be able to aim the cloth bail into one of several openings to ring a bell and give an extra point...
Escaping the Media. In a split decision, the Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reversed Weinman, but Sheppard stayed on bail. He listened intently last week as his attorney, F. Lee Bailey, recalled once more the "circus publicity" of the trial. The reason for such banner headlines as WHY ISN'T SAM SHEPPARD IN JAIL?; QUIT STALLING, BRING HIM IN; Bailey contended, was that Cleveland Press Editor Louis Seltzer (who recently retired) thought that only his paper could prevent a cover-up of the murder. Once the trial began, Bailey argued, Seltzer pressed for a conviction so that...
...After stressing M.I.T.'s importance as a place for defense and space research, Killian came right back to say that he was "skeptical" about receiving large amounts of federal aid to help with possible relocation. "The government's not going to bail us out," he said quickly and dropped the subject. The figure of $80 million damage stood and the clear impression left for the press--correct or not--was that it would have to be paid almost entirely by M.I.T...