Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrested on a minor smuggling charge, Walcott languished in the Delhi jail for half a year until his bail was posted by Air-India's prestigious chairman, J. R. D. Tata. Then Walcott left India for points unknown, but he dutifully returned a few months later for the trial. He was found guilty, fined $420, but the prison sentence was commuted to the time he had already spent in jail. Walcott was free but not his Piper, which had been seized for debts. No one, however, seemed to mind that Walcott continued to care for the plane, pouring...
Last week the Pentagon had second thoughts. Under a year-old Army regulation, ex-servicemen who have been sent to prison for five years or more are ineligible for burial in a national cemetery. Thompson had received a three-year sentence for his 1949 conviction, jumped bail, was recaptured and sentenced to an additional four years. In all, he spent five years and one month in prison. With Thompson's ashes already at Arlington awaiting burial this week, the Army asked U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to rule on the problem...
...maintain its vast surveillance system and uninterrupted communication with a network of planes, bases and radar stations, NORAD has installed 13 computers-each with its own job, each able to bail out any of the others in case of trouble. Those computers, with their intricate mix of sophisticated electronic aids, represent a new generation of automated information. Data from a BMEWS station in Alaska, for example, or a message from a Navy antisubmarine patrol plane, is fed into the banked computer memory drums and onto the glowing display consoles without ever passing through human hands or brains. So fast...
...code's supporters hope that it might lend to legislative action on pro-arraignment procedures -- either through state law - including such matters as search, seizure, arrest, questioning, bail, the right to detain, and confessions -- is now determined by individual court cases...
...average U.S. defendant pays a bondsman 10% of the value of the bail. But rates vary from place to place (5% in New York, 12% in Wisconsin) and even from defendant to defendant. Some bondsmen give lower rates to seasoned criminals on the theory that they are less likely to panic and flee...