Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder of young Andrea lasted 20 weeks, the longest and most expensive murder trial in Texas history. It involved lurid testimony about sex and drug orgies at the mansion, all designed to discredit Priscilla's testimony against her husband. He was acquitted and released on $325,000 bail to await trial for the other shootings. But before the second trial could start, McCrory went to the FBI with his tale of the hit list. It included, besides Judge Eidson, the wounded family friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, who at the first trial had fingered Davis as the gunman, and Judge...
...avoidance of federal money and control is small consolation to people who do not share in the general prosperity. Just upriver from the Freeport Sulphur Co., amid signs advertising bail bondsmen and flood insurance, are the offices of white Attorney Joseph Defley, a former FBI agent who 14 years ago married the sheriff of Plaquemines' daughter and moved down from Chicago. One of his clients is Merlis Broussard, 45, a barrel-chested black construction worker who once helped dig a crayfish pond behind Chalin Perez's new home. They have just won a federal court suit...
...months Congress and the White House have been fine-tuning measures designed to bail out the Middle American, differing sharply in their approaches. Last week, in a display of irresolution that was unusual even for Capitol Hill, the Senate approved both approaches by large margins. First the Senate approved, 65 to 27, a bill proposed by Roth that would grant to parents an immediate tax credit of 50% of tuition and fees for every child in a college or post-secondary vocational school up to a ceiling of $250; the limit would be raised to $500 a child...
Only three people posted bail and were released...
Miles Ehrlich, a New Hampshire Clamshell Alliance spokesman, said the other protestors decided to exhibit "bond solidarity" as a protest against the "classist nature of the bail system, which doesn't take into account differing abilities...