Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hawk, that seemed enough to get Corona out on bail-after more than 500 days of incarceration (and two heart attacks). Indeed, at the courtroom hearing, with the jury absent, Judge Patton excoriated the prosecution for what "almost approaches dereliction of duty. I just don't understand how [the case] could have been prepared in this manner." Then Prosecutor Williams claimed he no longer had reasonable doubt, partly because he had just found that he really did have tire tracks that matched Corona's truck after all; the correct tire-track specimen had simply been mislaid...
...refused bail, and the trial goes on. Hawk will continue to argue that inexperienced authorities panicked under the glare of publicity. He claims that the murders probably were committed by a homosexual (some of the bodies were found with pants down) and points out that Corona has been found to be "hopelessly heterosexual...
...allegedly responsible for transporting Jews from occupied countries outside the Third Reich to concentration camps. He was arrested in 1958, but it took German prosecutors nine years to prepare the case for trial. The date was finally set for May 1968, but since then Wagner, who is out on bail, has won one postponement after another by changing attorneys and claiming ill health. Last July he underwent an eye operation three days before his long-delayed trial was to begin...
...Baker's better pieces tells how the Republicans are so rich that they are turning away millionaire would-be donors at the White House door. One G.O.P. official suggests that the surplus be budgeted for bail bonds-presumably for Watergate wrongdoers-but another has the inspired idea of giving it to McGovern to "increase his visibility and, thus, decrease his vote." Concludes Baker: "As President Nixon's campaign has illustrated, the candidate who succeeds in disappearing entirely this year might very well win in a landslide...
Farah management secured a court order four months ago that required pickets to remain 50 feet apart. Over 700 employees have been arrested, ostensibly for violating this order. The alleged violations are a misdemeanor and are reported to carry a usual bail of $25. However, $400 has been the bail imposed on each arrested worker...