Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moore was arraigned on a charge of attempting "to kill the President of the United States by the use of a handgun." She asked for and was given a public defender, James Hewitt, as her attorney. U.S. Magistrate Owen Woodruff set bail at $500,000 and, with the concurrence of both Hewitt and the U.S. Attorney's office, ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests at Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego. That may take 60 days. Said one top police official: "This looks like completely a mental case, and if that's what finally comes out, that should wrap...
Kankakee can't bail New Yorkers out of their financial dilemma, but it doesn't hurt us to wish them all well...
...riveting adventure novel Deliverance had just driven his 1968 Jaguar off the road and into a utility pole in Columbia, S.C. "There is a kind of complex of roads which I am unfamiliar with," explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars and the loss of his driving privileges if convicted, Dickey plans to maintain control of his poetic license at least. The incident, he mused, should lead to "a couple of pretty good poems...
Marion returned and the conversation drifted to other subjects. Cleaver talked only briefly about his efforts to return to the United States. He said he has a request for a full pardon, exonerating him from skipping bail and leaving the country, before California's Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Asked why he wants to return to America, he answered, "Well, don't you want to go back?" Someone asked where he would settle, and Cleaver answered that he hadn't even given it thought, that he just wants the freedom to return but doubts he'd settle here...
With Squeaky behind bars on $1 million bail, Sandra Good took over the leadership of the family with a vengeance. She began issuing bloodcurdling threats against people who she apparently felt were guilty of polluting the environment. Phoned by Rob Ruby, a reporter for a New Orleans radio station, she said that half a dozen leading businessmen in the South were targets for assassination, although some seemed to have no connection with environmental matters. Their wives, she said, would also be "terribly, terribly murdered." Later, Good gave the Associated Press a death list of 75 businessmen around the nation...