Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that help would arrive." Martinez started snapping pictures as soon as he reached the scene. According to the French police report, he told an officer, "You are pissing me off. Let me do my work. At least at Sarajevo the cops let us work." Though both were released on bail, they are the only two photographers who are denied the right to work at their profession until the investigation is over...
...Phoenix murders have turned a light onto a dark corner of the criminal-justice system. Bounty hunters are largely independent contractors hired by the nation's estimated $4 billion bail-bond industry to track down criminal defendants who jump bail. Lately, they have taken to calling themselves "bail-enforcement agents" or "fugitive-recovery agents." There are more than 10,000 nationwide, and last year they found tens of thousands of fugitives, generally taking home a fee of about 10% of the bail in question. The profession dates back in the U.S. to the days of the Wild West, when shorthanded...
...sets the standard of conduct for many in the field but not the geographic boundaries; bounty hunters roam from Manhattan to Southern California, renegades of the American criminal-justice system. Incredibly, only a handful of states have licensing requirements for bounty hunters. "The business is wide open," says Phoenix bail agent Linda Ownbey. "Anybody can get in, and anything can happen...
Because they are not government officers but private actors enforcing the contractual terms of the bail bond, bounty hunters generally don't need court orders to burst into private homes, nor do they have to observe constitutional niceties like Miranda warnings. An 1873 Supreme Court decision held that bounty hunters may pursue a defendant "into another State; may arrest him on the Sabbath; and, if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." Says Arizona lawyer Gary Klahr: "In Phoenix, it's harder now to repossess a car--you're supposed to alert the police first--than...
...they cannot breathe easy. Judge Herve Stephan has placed all seven of the photographers arrested at the scene of Princess Diana's car crash under investigation for possible charges of involuntary homicide and failing to come to the aid of accident victims. Two were released on $16,000 bail, and are forbidden to snap pictures for profit until the judge decides whether the case warrants a trial...