Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painstaking preparation is showing promising results. Of the 63 participants who tested positive, only two have required psychiatric hospitalization, in both cases after the onset of symptoms. Still, not all the others who now show symptoms are having an easy time. A team social worker occasionally has had to bail a patient out of jail. "People make bad decisions," says Brandt, "especially in the early part of the disease...
Then began the parade. One after another at Einhorn's bail hearing, his supporters took the stand in his defense. A minister, a corporate lawyer, a playwright, an economist, a telephone-company executive. They couldn't imagine Einhorn's harming any living thing. Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was soon-to-be U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000--only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family...
...just 10 days. Serving as best man at his wedding was Spencer's Oxford chum Darius Guppy, who was later imprisoned for staging a jewelry theft intended to collect $2.8 million in insurance money from Lloyd's of London. Spencer has stuck by Guppy, first supplying half his bail and later allowing the former convict to live in a house on the Althorp estate, the family's Northamptonshire ancestral seat...
...searching a private home after the occupant produced an ID showing he was not the man wanted. Texas requires bounty hunters to obtain arrest warrants and be accompanied by peace officers, security officers or licensed private investigators. Curbs have not come easily. Says Gene Newman, president of the Professional Bail Agents of the U.S.: "Whenever we try to pass laws, we hit a lot of resistance from Rambo wannabes who call their legislators...
...California Motel 6, won a $1.15 million verdict. Despite last week's deaths, damage awards like these are inexorably exerting a civilizing effect on a profession with a reputation for cutting legal corners. "The days of kicking doors and slapping whores are over," says Don Floyd, owner of Northeast Bail Bonds in Atlanta, who tries to be selective about the bounty hunters he employs. Otherwise, he says, "I couldn't defend all the lawsuits I'd have...