Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheriff hustling to Neal's office to arrest him for criminal contempt of court - punishable in Indiana by up to three months' imprisonment and a $500 fine. Haling Neal to his courtroom, where four mounted animal heads gaze down impassively on the accused, Judge New set bail at a whopping...
...knock" law, for instance, policemen no longer need identify themselves when executing search warrants in certain kinds of cases, such as those involving narcotics, thus reducing the risk that suspects will destroy the evidence. Local authorities have also sought to reform the out-of-date bail system, under which bondsmen grow fat while poor defendants stay in jail, where they cannot build their cases. As a result, 59% of such defendants get convicted, compared with 10% in cases where the accused can afford bail. One hopeful solution to the problem is the four-year-old Manhattan Bail Project, through which...
...bail out the fleet, Nick Johnson has proposed that...
...Favreau-were pressuring him to take it easy in an extradition case. Lamontagne was working for the U.S. Justice Department, which sought the extradition of one Lucien Rivard, a Montreal racketeer wanted on a narcotics-smuggling rap. Lamontagne claimed that Denis offered him $20,000 not to fight bail for Rivard; the other three, said Lamontagne, tried to apply political pressure. The Mounties notified Favreau, who informed Pearson, then ordered a routine investigation by the Mounties. Their report was inconclusive, and there the matter remained until last November, when the opposition Conservatives broke the story in Parliament...
After Susan M. Ryerson of Cambridge and Peter I. de Lissovoy of Chicago were arraigned in Rochester City Court, Miss Ryerson was released on $10,000 bail. De Lissovoy's bail was set at the same figure...