Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today Wright is undoubtedly the most controversial judge in New York, and the continuing storm over many of his decisions has catapulted him into a national prominence unique for a municipal judge. The furor centers on the issue of bail. Wright contends that the present system of administering bail in American courts is unjust to the poor, specifically to blacks and other minority groups. He has made himself a one man force for bail reform, by invariably setting low bail for defendants of limited financial means who are arraigned before him. In a few widely publicized cases, such defendants have...
...case, Wright released a man, accused of shooting and seriously wounding a policeman in a restaurant holdup, on five hundred dollars bail, only to have his bail decision overturned by a fellow Criminal Court judge. Wright questioned the right of the judge--theoretically his equal--to overrule him. But the PBA pressured then Mayor Lindsay into initiating an investigation of Wright's fitness to serve as a judge. Nothing came of the investigation...
...Bail. Prime Minister Michael Manley and Jamaica's Parliament finally had enough last March after four prominent businessmen were shot to death. Manley sponsored two new laws aimed at meting out "swift, sure and irreversible punishment" to anyone caught carrying a gun illegally. Under the Suppression of Crime Act, army troops cordon off areas of the 4,411-sq.-mi. island while police conduct intensive house-to-house searches without warrants. Anyone caught with an unlicensed gun or even a single bullet is tried under the provisions of a second law, the Gun Court Act. Under the terms...
Some Congressmen think so. In the Department of Transportation, the feeling is that even if the CAB authorizes a subsidy, Congress will not fund it because it is tired of being asked to bail out private companies in the manner of Perm Central, Lockheed and Grumman. Wisconsin's influential Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a longtime foe of subsidies to business, is adamant against any aid to Pan Am beyond possible increases in fares. He bristles at the thought of turning Pan Am into "the nation's largest welfare recipient...
...dioceses that brought good tidings: about $1 million in outright gifts and longterm, low-or no-interest loans in amounts ranging from $25,000 to $1 million. Similarly, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, an umbrella organization for U.S. male religious orders, has organized an effort to bail out the La Salettes. Still, that leaves a number of investors whose fate is still unknown, and whose traffic with Mammon may well have left a much more bitter legacy of lost hope, faith and money...