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...arrested for stealing recyclable goods from Winthrop House two weeks ago will face a pretrial hearing in early January, Police Chief Paul E. Johnson said yesterday...
Maxwell was ordered held on $4000 bail pending a pretrial hearing on October...
...settle for modest fees that rarely cover the cost of a thorough defense. While a private attorney in Atlanta may make upwards of $75 an hour, court-appointed lawyers in Georgia are paid about $30 an hour. In Alabama they cannot be paid more than $1,000 for pretrial preparations. Even if they spend just 500 hours at the task -- the U.S. average in 1987 was 2,000 -- that amounts to $2 an hour. "The lawyer would be better off going to work at McDonald's," says Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights...
Nationally, big-city jailers, their hands already full controlling pretrial detainees and short-term prisoners in overcrowded conditions, tend to resist such reforms. They want more proof that the new designs are truly more efficient and that their guards will be safe. Proponents counter that with proper screening, violent prisoners, who account for only 10% of inmates, can be isolated in highly secure areas, while the general population could dwell in less expensive -- and relatively normal -- environments...
...issue of racism until late in the 29 days of testimony and may have assumed that the stark video alone guaranteed convictions. Others pointed to a crucial decision last Nov. 26, when the judge granted a defense motion for a change of venue, on the grounds of harmful pretrial publicity, from Los Angeles County to neighboring and overwhelmingly white Ventura County. Before a jury of 10 whites, one Asian and one Hispanic, defense lawyers portrayed the accused policemen as the "thin blue line" between law-abiding citizens and the rebellious, intransigent forces embodied, so the argument implied, in Rodney King...