Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squares who exploit the hip are in turn being exploited by the radicals. It is a logical development, considering the precedents: black militants have demanded their cut from church collections, and radical N.Y.U. students last spring captured the computer, demanding $100,000 ransom to be used as Black Panther bail money...
...most violent opposition to the D.C. bill stems from its acceptance of preventive detention-a procedure that another Administration bill would apply to all federal courts. Some alleged offenders released on bail are rearrested for fresh crimes during long waits for trial in the clogged D.C. courts; preventive detention would permit judges to hold potentially dangerous suspects for up to 60 days. The effort to check recidivist crime, critics charge, would surely result in denial of bail to some innocent suspects, and to others who would not commit further crimes. Moreover, detention hearings might jam the courts still further. Repeater...
Though the measure increases the authority of prosecutors to make witnesses talk by granting them immunity from subsequent prosecution, those who remain silent could be given up to three years in jail for contempt, with no trial and with virtually no chance of bail if they appeal. More might be accomplished by another provision of the bill that authorizes money for protecting witnesses too fearful of revenge to testify. Nor is there much controversy over a section authorizing injunctions against entire gangster-run enterprises which could confiscate their property or require them to sell...
...perverse way, the nation's ailing economy has done for Black Panther Joan Bird what the legal system would not. Last week, after 15 months in jail on charges of conspiracy to bomb public places, friends raised Joan's $100,000 bail and she was set free. The bail was in the form of New York State municipal bonds, and the irony was they had cost Joan's benefactors only...
...year-old former nursing student was a severely depressed bond market that enabled her lawyers to arrange the purchase of the necessary paper for less than half its face value, and a little-known statute providing that municipal bonds must be accepted at their face value in payment of bail. The issues-all of them bearer bonds and thus freely negotiable -were a ragtag assortment of New York State Housing Authority and Dormitory Authority bonds. The man who engineered the transaction, New York Attorney Victor Rabinowitz, said he intends to use the method to free some of the remaining...