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...other cases, the problem is the judges. Certain judges tend to set very low or no bail for defendants, especially in drug cases, the commission report concluded. "The vast majority of our judges are good men and women, thank God, who do a tough job. They're inundated with cases," says Goyeneche, a former prosecutor. "[But] a small percentage are doing a disservice to the community and putting people at risk. Corruption explains some of it, also burnout and just callousness...
...SENTENCED. SALMAN KHAN, 40, Bollywood actor known for his romantic leading roles; to five years in prison for killing an endangered species of gazelle during a 1998 hunting trip; in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Khan was freed on bail pending his appeal...
...normal assumption about such indirectness would be that the group is hiding something, and filthy lucre is a staple of the Opus myth. Two rumors about its popularity with John Paul were that it funded the Solidarity trade union and helped bail out the Vatican bank after its 1982 scandal. Poverty is demonstrably not one of Opus' vows. It has a reputation for cultivating the rich or those soon to be, at both élite colleges and its own institutions. (In Latin America many in the church feel that Opus priests served once ascendant oligarchs over the masses.) Even...
Plotkin is currently being held on $3 million bail, said Megan L. Gaffney, spokesperson for the U.S. District Attorney’s Office. Pajcin, Shpigelman, Renteria, and Shuster were all arrested, according to the press release...
Plotkin’s family fully supports his client and hope to get him out on bail before the weekend, he added...