Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judge Alfred Cassasa of the Hampton District Court set bail at $100 for first offenders, and $200 for protesters with a record of arrests...
...police station in the small Somerset town of Minehead. A court clerk asked whether his name was John Jeremy Thorpe. The answer was an all but inaudible "It is." Following a hearing that lasted a scant 21 minutes, the slight, dapper Thorpe, 49, was released on $10,000 bail after being formally charged with conspiracy to murder. The alleged target: Norman Scott, 37, a down-and-out male model who 2½ years ago publicly claimed that he and Thorpe had had a homosexual relationship. The stunning legal action presented Britons with their greatest political scandal since the Profumo...
During his trial, Treu gave several interviews suggesting that he was the victim of bureaucratic bungling, which may have let his security clearance lapse without his knowledge. Indeed, NATO was still awarding contracts to him during his trial. Now free on $10,000 bail pending an appeal, Treu has been silenced by a court order, and officials hint only that the case is not insubstantial...
...Russians, a staff member of the Soviet mission to the U.N., had diplomatic immunity and was swiftly sent home. The other two, United Nations Employees Rudolf Chernyayev and Valdik Enger, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of passing U.S. Navy secrets and jailed with the unusually high bail of $2 million each. FBI leaks to the press ridiculed the agents as ham-fisted operatives who had been caught with an orange-juice carton full of phony antisubmarine warfare documents that had been prepared for them by the feds...
...really on his mind was Proposition 13. Said Brown: "We have our marching orders from the people. This is the strongest expression of the democratic process in a decade." He promised to implement 13 "in the most human, sensitive way I can"?and without raising state taxes to bail out the newly stricken local units of government. But, he admitted, "things will never be the same...