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After the hearing, Pellegrini, who spent seven nights in jail before posting bail, told The Crimson that he maintains his innocence, recalling a different series of events than police reports indicate...
...moment came in October of 1960, when Martin Luther King led a student sit in of Atlanta's segregated snack bars and restaurants. He was arrested at the Magnolia Room restaurant, along with more than 50 other people. But while they were all released on bail, Dr. King was held on a technicality - a traffic violation, no less - and sentenced to hard time at the State penitentiary in Reidsville...
Ernest A. Pellegrini was initially held on $500 bail, but after learning that Pellegrini had been charged with assault and battery in June 2005, Judge George Sprague of Cambridge District Court ordered that Pellegrini remain in custody...
...minors were released without bail under the condition that they stay away from Harvard and from their co-defendants, according to the Middlesex County district attorney’s spokeswoman, Melissa Sherman...
Before Katrina pounded New Orleans last summer, that city's longstanding reputation for graft was reinforced by Operation Wrinkled Robe, which uncovered a bribery scheme initiated by a bail-bonds company at a local courthouse. In addition to various officials in the Jefferson Parish sheriff's office, two state judges were convicted for their roles in helping steer business (i.e., prisoners) to the firm. In San Diego local government has been effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes...