Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of Nixon's appointees are of less distinction. U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti of San Francisco has a reputation with the bar for regressive rulings-including taking the highly unusual action of denying bail to four Selective Service defendants. Spencer Williams of the same court was found barely qualified by the A.B.A. On the Fifth Circuit, which covers much of the South, Joe McDonald Ingraham ranks as a less than distinguished choice; as a trial judge, he gave Muhammad Ali the maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine for refusing to be drafted. The conviction...
ffrench-Beytagh, a Shanghai-born former hobo and odd jobber with a long-time reputation as a "fighting parson" in Rhodesia and South Africa, is free on $14,000 bail pending an appeal. Because, at 59, he is suffering from a weak heart and hypertension, he figures that if the appeal fails, "I won't come out alive, you know." Thus he is using his time to say farewell to friends...
After his arrest, Hakim was held in jail in lieu of $50,000 bond. The bail was later lowered to $2,500. The money was raised, and Hakim was released...
Governor Sargent delayed signing the extradition papers for five months. At any point during that time. Hakim could have followed the lead of the New York Black Panthers who jumped bail and fled the country. He did not. He stayed in Boston, and continued his work at the Foundation...
...declared: "If America doesn't come around, then black people are going to burn it down." After parts of Cambridge did indeed burn down that July of 1967, Brown was charged with inciting to riot and arson. He vanished in March 1970 while out on $10,000 bail, shortly after a bomb blast killed two of his associates while they were driving in Bel Air, Md.-where pretrial hearings for Brown were being held...