Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite, The Camel died of a heart attack. The diagnosis was that he expired of acute humiliation...
...controversial research project that OEO had financed at Syracuse University. The program, aimed at encouraging the poor to promote their own interests more vigorously, was canceled after federal funds were used 1) to transport mobs to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his re-election campaign, and 2) to bail demonstrators out of jail. Declared Walsh: "This program from its inception has tried to promote class warfare. Its concept, its purpose and its methods are completely alien to our American way of life...
...more civil rights as he is a crack criminal lawyer seeking better protection of existing rights. The rights themselves have been won-from free expression in 1789 to equal voting in " 1965. And yet, he says, the American citizen may still be "arrested, jailed, fined under guise of bail and put to every risk and rancor of the criminal process if he expresses himself unpopularly." In the years ahead, Amsterdam intends to concentrate on making "the paper right a practical protection...
...member of the boxing, wrestling and swimming teams and became the national small-bore rifle champion. Largely owing to his reputation as a good shot, he was convicted in 1939 of having murdered a political opponent of his Congressman father. Marcos graduated from law school while free on bail with the highest mark in Philippine history and took on his own defense as his first case. Arguing before the Supreme...
Nevertheless, in a chilling study of Southern "law enforcement" that was issued last week, the congressionally created U.S. Civil Rights Commission appointed by the President recounted case after case of excessive bail, deliberate court delays, harsh sentences and cruel jail conditions-all tactics that were used to cow Negroes long before the civil rights movement got started. Calling for federal action, the commission urged on-the-spot FBI arrests and injunctive relief against state prosecutions of citizens trying to exercise First Amendment rights, such as peaceful assembly...