Word: rearrest
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...touched. Although police must conform to established legal procedures before extraditing a prisoner from one state to another, bail bondsmen remain curiously above the law. They got there by old British common-law tradition; they stay there because of an 1872 Supreme Court ruling which declared that the rearrest of a defendant on bail "is likened to the rearrest of an escaping prisoner by the sheriff...
Justice Is Done. In Dallas, a few days after obtaining the release of Dewey Leon Hipp, jailed for drunkenness, Attorney Abe Byers asked police to rearrest his client, angrily explained: "He gave me a hot check...
...Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had been arresting Communists on charges of vagrancy, thought there ought to be a more specific charge. He pushed a new ordinance through the city commission, banishing Communists from Birmingham on pain of a maximum $100 fine, 180-day jail sentence and constant rearrest. A Communist, said Bull's ordinance, was anyone caught talking to a Communist in a "nonpublic place," or anyone who passed out literature that could be traced, even remotely, to a Communist hand...
...jail again, his bewildered wife, with a large bunch of roses clutched in one hand and her small son gripped by the other, called on Miss Six. Betty took the flowers uncertainly, stammered through an interpreter that, really, she had had nothing to do with Tietz's rearrest...
...last week servants entered his private chamber, found his bed empty and no sign of their master anywhere. Worried relatives suspected kidnapping, or suicide touched off by an unbalanced mind. But the wary Government issued a special warrant for his rearrest, anxiously awaited new signs of civil disobedience directed from underground by sharp-witted Subhas Chandra Bose...