Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December 1961, King joined a mass protest demonstration in Albany, Ga., was arrested, and dramatically declared that he would stay in jail until Albany consented to desegregate its public facilities. But just two days after his ar rest, King came out on bail. The Alba ny movement collapsed, and King was bitterly criticized for helping to kill...
...unemployed salesman and divorced, he had been charged with petty theft in the past. The other two were equally smalltime. Joseph Amsler, 23, an abalone fisherman from Playa del Rey, had been pinched for a liquor-law violation, mumbled, when asked if his parents could provide $50,000 bail: "I don't think they would be interested." The third man, John Irwin, 42, of Hollywood, a house painter, had a record of arrests from Maine to California for a mixed bag of crimes ranging from assault and battery to nonsupport...
During the complex legal maneuvering preceding that decision, it became clear that Georgia officials were intent on making an example of the four defendants. The officials held the students for more than three months before they were ordered by the three-judge panel to set bail...
...indicted students have been subjected to another juridical proceeding of questionable legality. Although the students have been released on bail in the custody of their lawyer, the court has restricted their movements to the "New York City area." Hoping to make money to pay for their defense and to present their case to the public in the best possible light, the four had accepted speaking engagements at universities around the country. The defense has moved for reconsideration of the local travel restriction, stating that since "bail is limited to providing assurance that the accused will appear for trial . . . [the travel...
...three months the Sumter County, Ga., jail held four young men-three white, one Negro, all Northerners-who were arrested last August in Americus, during civil rights demonstrations. They were charged with "inciting insurrection," a capital crime in Georgia, so there was no bail (TIME, Nov. 1). Their lawyers believed the state did not care whether the four were ever brought to trial. Said Attorney Morris B. Abram: "These people are being held and offered bail only if they give up their constitutional rights, that is, leave the county, leave the state." And Sumter County Prosecutor Stephen Pace Jr. admitted...