Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tightwad. Fearful that members of his dope ring might cheat him, he mixed into narcotics dealings that he might well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
Lower courts denied Williams' motion. But the Supreme Court sent the case back to the Court of Appeals for "further consideration." While he waits for the next decision, Genovese is not likely to go free on bail, but the Supreme Court ruling is almost sure to have a strange side effect: the impending struggle for power among big-time U.S. hoods will be postponed while the top men wait to see whether Genovese is freed to resume his old place...
...another local move yesterday, the NAACP Legal defense and Educational Fund filed a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to set bail for Perdew and three other Northern college students in the Americas, Ga., county jail. The students, all volunteer civil rights workers, were indicted Aug. 8 for "inciting to insurrection." They were leaders in a drive to break the color bar at a local movie theater...
...students were taken to the MDC jail in Boston and released after two hours on $50 bail apiece. They will be arraigned in Third District Court in East Cambridge at 9 a.m. this morning...
Ervin's concession has little meaning, however. According to federal statutes, any case tried by a three-member panel of judges may be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the three judges,--one a segregationist, one a liberal, and one of uncertain conviction--refuse to set bail for the four prisoners, the case will be appealed to the high court immediately...