Word: bails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nickel bags into his mouth; it was pried out by police. His companion, dressed in a suit, did nothing and said nothing. Both were charged with possession of heroin, a misdemeanor carrying a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $10,000 fine, and promptly released on bail. According to Captain James Nestor, commander of Washington's narcotics squad, both men had needle marks on their arms, suggesting that last week's drug buy was not their first...
...included hundreds of wiretapped telephone conversations, claims otherwise. Accused along with Cohn as co-conspirators were 15 people, mainly New York residents. They included a flamboyantly rich British earl, John Jermyn, 28. Cohn, if convicted, could be sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released on $500,000 bail, secured by a Manhattan town house he owns...
Early in her career, fledgling Attorney Rikki Klieman made a major mistake. She failed to prepare fully for a simple bail hearing, thinking that her friendship with the opposing lawyer would help her win. She lost. "I learned then," she recalls, "never, ever to walk into a courtroom without knowing everything I could possibly know about my case." Today Klieman, 35, is among Boston's best defense lawyers, in charge of the criminal trial division at the city's prestigious firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart. Says one of the city's top criminal lawyers, Joseph Balliro...
...Government and the gangsters at bay. Two Teamsters' presidents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric chair...
...said the Government's chief prosecutor Douglas Roller, "a day of reckoning." Hours before he was to report to a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., Roy L. Williams agreed to resign from the presidency of the 1.9 million-member Teamsters Union in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his case. He was convicted in December for conspiring with four other defendants to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada...