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SOME PEOPLE came in today to ask for help in bailing King Collins out of jail. They explained about bondsmen, about bail, about money you lose, and money you get back. We asked why they thought anybody wanted King Collins out of jail...
...four days of imprisonment in New York City. Arrested for transporting a .30-cal. carbine over state lines while under indictment for his role in the Cam bridge, Md., riots the previous month, Brown was released only after his bail had been reduced from $25,000 to $15,000 (bondsmen would not put up the bail, which had to be raised in toto among S.N.C.C sympathizers). "If President Johnson is worried about my rifle," he said on leaving jail, "wait until I get my atom bomb...
Learning from Bondsmen. In 1960, Georgetown launched the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowships (named for an alumnus U.S. judge), which annually pay up to eleven graduate students an average $7,000, plus fees and tuition, to spend a year defending indigents. So far, the fellows have defended almost 2,500 clients, thus learning trial law while earning master's degrees and providing needed representation in the process...
With the Ford Foundation paying the tab, Prettyman Fellows first spend two months studying some 600 cases, holding mock trials and visiting police stations. They get advice from judges, psychiatrists, even bail bondsmen. By midyear, a typical Prettyman fellow is handling no fewer than five misdemeanor cases, ten felonies, a couple of appeals and a constant series of preliminary hearings-all the while attending night classes at Georgetown and writing research papers...
...this parroty parody adds up to a near disaster. Assuming a knowing superiority over its prototypes, Modesty is less a spoof than a limp-wristed kind of fairy tale, witlessly cluttered up with homosexual malice, artsy gift-shop decor, and the same old gaggy gadgetry on which the Bondsmen have patents pending...