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...pretrial hearing will take place in Summerville District Court on April...
...Bleak House. The first judge in the case died and was replaced in 1978 by Judge Harold Greene, a refugee from Nazi Germany who had helped draw up the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while working in the Justice Department. Greene conducted more than 18 months of hearings, pretrial discovery and major filings by the parties. Not until January 1981 did the trial begin...
Vink pleaded not guilty and was released after her pretrial date was set for November 3. Martin, after receiving advice from a lawyer at the Harvard Divinity school, pleaded no contest-a plea which will go on their records as "guilty." Martin had prepared a statement to read in court, but the judge would not permit her to read it. --Yale Daily News
...that the cost of the investigations alone was certainly more than the $1.6 million commandeered in the Brink's heist. A battle is brewing, however, between Rockland County, where the crime occurred, and Orange County, where the trial was moved in a change of venue because of prejudicial pretrial publicity. Massive security has been necessary from the beginning, and Orange County has equipped and trained a special squad of police to guard the prisoners. Overall costs have reached $3 million and are still growing. But Rockland County has allocated only $1 million this year for the case and says...
...trouble started in May 1981, when Sidney Jaffe, a prominent Toronto land developer, failed to appear for a pretrial hearing in rural Putnam County, Fla.; the charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would...