Word: bail
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...Jersey. A minor traffic violation by Humes last March led police in Hamilton, Mass., to run a check of Humes's record through the National Computer Information Center--the federal Justice Department's criminal record data bank--which revealed Humes to be a "fugitive from justice." A bail of $25,000 was set for Humes, an unusually high amount for an otherwise routine traffic ticket, and he gained release after three days in jail when the bail was posted. Humes appealed to Ben Jones, assistant legal counsel to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, in a May 24 meeting to reject...
Appearing in court next morning, Mrs. Gandhi once more tormented her tormentors. Under Indian law, the court appearance is a mere formality. As police were using tear gas to break up demonstrations outside the courtroom, Mrs. Gandhi defiantly told the presiding magistrate that she would not ask for bail and preferred to remain in jail. Government lawyers hedged when the magistrate asked them, again and again: "What do you want? What exactly is your prayer?" The government was afraid to take the risk of jailing her, and after 80 minutes of courtroom waffling, the judge released...
...their part, the gangsters still seek to defend themselves as a traditional part of society. Speaking last week in the outskirts of Kobe under the eyes of police guards, one local gang boss out on bail defiantly described the yakuza as "lotus flowers on a sea of mud." Said he: "We're flotsam of society, but we're dedicated to our own code of honor at the cost of our own lives. If I as a boss didn't control my boys, the city would be worse off-call us a necessary social evil." Increasingly, it appears...
Friends refused to post bail for Williams. While he was in jail, police discovered more than 2500 books at this home, and he was eventually tried on 20 counts of theft...
...bail pending appeal from a 25-year term on an obscenity conviction in Ohio, Flynt said, "that judge in Cincinnati did not give me a prison sentence, he gave me a podium...