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Still pending before McGuire are several pre-trial motions by the defense, including one to dismiss the indictment and another to re-summons a pre-jury panel...
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black once wrote that "free press and fair trial are two of the most cherished policies in our civilization, and it would be a trying task to choose between them." That choice need not be made if both law officials and journalists work at sensible accommodations. Most of the prejudicial information leaked to the press before a trial comes from police officers, prosecutors, wardens, lawyers and even judges themselves. In 1966 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Paul Reardon's landmark study on pre-trial publicity recommended a series of guidelines for lawyers and law officers...
September 25: A federal judge, citing intense pre-trial publicity and various irregularities, frees mass murderer William Calley. The army blocks the release by announcing it will appeal...
Wright remains unfazed by the often personal attacks. He holds that it is unfair to let those who can afford high bail buy their way out of pre-trial imprisonment while sending to jail those who cannot produce the money. He likens the bail system to the draft exemption laws which existed during the Civil War. "For three hundred dollars a man could purchase an exemption from conscription to the Union Army during the Civil War. In New York, for example, this meant that those who were sent off to die in the war were mostly the poor, notably immigrants...
...Wright says bail should be set in accordance with his financial means, even if this means no bail. "Bail is not a fine, it is not intended to serve as a punishment," he says. "Bail is designed to insure appearance in court." He further charges that lengthy pre-trial incarceration violates the spirit of the constitution...