Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recorder's Court still has its problems. Police critics are at least partly correct in charging that suspects are sometimes released too readily; one man had to be arrested for burglary three times in four days before bail was set high enough to take him out of circulation. Some of the judges-like low-level jurists elsewhere-lack judicial polish and expertise. But the court has at least climbed out of the cesspool...
...William R. Calley again makes headlines as a result of a recent court ruling permitting him to be freed on bail pending an appeal of his previous convictions for "murdering at least 22 Vietnamese citizens at My Lai March 16, 1968." I would like to make it as clear as possible that no one could more deeply deplore than I the crimes of Lt. Calley. They really border on the insane. It is certainly conceivable, however, that an unstable character might have honestly believed that he or she was carrying out the orders of superiors, or even those...
...still an Army officer, and proud to be," Calley said after his release on bail by the civil court judge. He still is appealing the 20-year sentence he received from a military court for murdering 22 civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. "I intend to continue to pursue all legal avenues until my conviction is reversed, I am released completely and forever, and my name is cleared." Meanwhile the review of Calley's case by Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway has already begun. Callaway, or President Nixon when he reviews the case later, could reduce...
June 26. Ehrlichman met with Dean at the White House and approved a suggestion that Dean ask General Vernon A. Walters, deputy director of the CIA, whether the CIA could use covert funds to pay salaries and bail for the arrested men. (Both Dean and Walters have testified that Dean...
JAMES W. MCCORD JR., 49, former CIA agent and C.R.P. security coordinator. Convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping at Watergate; free on bail pending appeal...